Review: Krypton Nights

Transmitted on Tuesday, April, 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm in Reviews

Krypton Nights
Bryan D. Dietrich
Zoo Press
2002

Few books in any writing genre have been constructed with as much vision, ambition and complexity as Bryan Dietrich’s Krypton Nights.  Winner of the prestigious Paris Review Prize in Poetry in 2001, Krypton Nights is an intriguing collection of persona poems written in the voices of prominent characters from the Superman mythos.  Shifting through both voice and poetic structure, Krypton Nights is, in its own way, a treatise on heroes as argued by the hero and those closest to him.  It is, in both an emotional and artistic sense, a “grounding” of the superhero genre’s original product.

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