“There is real gold in this volume. Although many of
Pindar’s poems are informal, it includes a fine satirical sestina, ‘Les
Vacances de Monsieur P.’, an off-beat sonnet sequence, ‘The Prophecies’, and an
impressive pantoum, ‘Death of a Senator’. His interests are broad, his
responses to them musically gratifying and emotionally and intellectually deep.
Pindar’s inspiration comes from the fragility of life, his atheistic conviction
that death is just that . . . Whether or not you share his views on God, the
Monarchy or women, I expect you will be moved by the eloquence in much of
Emporium. I was about to say that Ian Pindar is a promising poet; but no, he is
already a significant one.”
Leah Fritz in Poetry Review (Vol. 101:4 Winter 2011)
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