Hudson Letter

"The new book, 'The Hudson Letter', is perhaps [Mahon's] least even achievement so far, but then evenness is not, it seems, what Mahon is after....'The Hudson Letter', in 18 longish sections, his longest poem to date, shows the poet once more coming into his own....[W]hat is most courageous and moving about the poem is the way the images of urban dereliction are tied explicitly to a personal crisis, a hard-earned fraternal feeling for the down-and-out. Underpinning the poem is a kind of self-healing impulse...."Mahon, Derek is the author of 'Hudson Letter' with ISBN 9780916390716 and ISBN 0916390713.