Poetry. "Gifford's spare, elliptical poems, formally 'open' and underpunctuated but readily comprehensible.(reveal) the poet as a meditative, lonely observer, haunted by memory's 'ghosts' and caught in the seasonal vicissitudes of experience, with an eye for plain but evocative detail.at his best (Gifford) recalls William Carlos Williams: particular, lyrical but laconic, compassionate but unsentimental" -Publishers Weekly.