[Name here] described the book as “written in a prose as spare as a winter sunset,” adding that “it is an elegy, not just for Kooser’s forebears but for all of us.” As spare as a winter sunset is a nice phrase, and is brings a feeling of elevation, it signals that this is hard won emotional praise from a smart cookie. It also belongs to a literary way of talking. Why say the prose is concise. Why say his prose is as sharp as a pin. That's not the way a man who says forebears would wrote.
Beware the inspiring phrase
Beware the inspiring phrase
Beware the inspiring phrase
[Name here] described the book as “written in a prose as spare as a winter sunset,” adding that “it is an elegy, not just for Kooser’s forebears but for all of us.” As spare as a winter sunset is a nice phrase, and is brings a feeling of elevation, it signals that this is hard won emotional praise from a smart cookie. It also belongs to a literary way of talking. Why say the prose is concise. Why say his prose is as sharp as a pin. That's not the way a man who says forebears would wrote.