"The ghazal form is well known in Islamic culture but only now making its way into the poetics of the ""West,"" partly thanks to Bly's collection The Night Abraham Called to the Stars. The ghazal's compacted energy is astounding. Each stanza of three lines amounts to a finished poem. In a period when much American poetry is retreating into prosaic recordings of daily ""events,"" these poems do the opposite - even more intricate and personal than the first ""book,"" their leaps more bold. Now in paper."