Reviews
David St. John's work has been distinguished from the start by its intimacy and subtlety, and by a disturbing force, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.
Expressive, gestural, and image-laden, St. John's lines fairly hum with the pleasure of their making.
Like the films of Godard and Rohmer, David St. John's poems evoke cryptic encounters in an ultramodern, often European setting. The mood is one of pain, tension and urgency, but there is finally the experience and the pleasure of what Mr. St. John called, 'the most graceful of misunderstandings.'