vatic

• “I'm very fond of the Fourth World series, and even enjoy the aspect of them that is most often mocked, Kirby's peculiar writing style, which to my ears at least has a kind of vatic poetry.”

  Comics Comics

• “The springy elegance of his mind, which serves to clarify the problems of life, not to muddle them with vatic obscurities, has brought him triple glory—as a poet, a translator no one has captured Molière in English better than he and a lyricist.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence

• “Sent down through his vatic brotherhood the Christ that was to be.”

  City and Village

• “Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off.”

  The Guardian: After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone

• “Non-vatic though I am, that looks like a good omen to me.”

  What’s the News from Basra?

• “Now, in her vatic vision of the world as a Jew, she wants to see women healed and changed with the restoration of the goddess in her many forms.”

  Alicia Suskin Ostriker.

• “The contemporary poet has largely eschewed any claim to the “vatic,” a mantle many poets a generation or three ago aspired to.”

  Poetry and Prophecy : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.”

  enowning

• “When the Ship Comes In" is as good an example as any, I suppose; Dylan in his vatic mode, descrying the shape of the coming day:”

  When The Ship Comes In

• “So obscure, so mystifying, so all-encompassing is Heidegger's Being that, his vatic pretensions notwithstanding, it leaves nothing to interpret but other interpretations.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

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