Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: An artist who has passed beyond the scales

This is a powerful work, suggesting Dante's journey into hell, although Widershien thinks of his journey as a way to look back to the past, live in the present and look to the future. Very sharply focussed images which have always been Widershien's signature. Poems on Thoreau, Brooklyn Bridge, Cambridge, Marblehead, and childhood places provide ample evidence that here is one of the most neglected and finest poets of our age.