Untouched Silences

Poetry. "David Jaffin is a scrupulous weigher and weighter of words—by which I mean that a poem is, for him, always a matter of collaboration with the true spirit of the language. Every word is given its value, neither more nor less."—Edward Lucie-Smith

"Jaffin's poetry is as 'modernist' as abstract painting while still poetry in the traditional sense, whose purpose is the verbalization of basic human experience and whose form derives from a serious exploration of language...it is remarkable what depth of experience Jaffin manages to relate through his severely limited vocabulary and imagery."—Victor Terras (Brown University)