cover image The Hidden Model

The Hidden Model

David Yezzi. Triquarterly Books, $39.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-8101-5144-4

The director of the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center in New York, David Yezzi, here offers The Hidden Model, comprised of 32 lyrics, for ""Beatitudes of Poverty"" (""Despite/ our frugal care, the stores are sapped; red ink/ replaces black""), ""What to Do with a Mountain Lake"" (""what was that unruined stillness/ of the lucid middle ring"") and ""Nostalgia for a New City"": ""Dark. Across the J, leather pants end in newsprint.""