grease guns
gun dogs
many poets from newfoundland sketch its wildly beautiful geography ; others have opened windows onto its speech patterns and social customs . james langer does what no other poet does he combines all sides of newfoundland at nearly every turn with the surety of a singer who can not sound any other way . like gun dogs uncontrolled creatures seemingly under restraint the poems in this collection strain at the lead . the torque is felt in the line the verb the metaphor . the maturity of langers vision reveals itself in the cumulative effect of his rhetoric . he wont land on his quarry whether love forgiveness respect of place or clarity of memory . he will however attain a palpable wisdom within these poems a measured equanimity that can be traced back to the stoics . gun dogs marks the debut of a fully formed talent that deserves a hearty and focused attention .