Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Strong debut

Whether Wenderoth is a "disciple" of Jack Gilbert or not, I don't know, but the poetry of both men employs a similar methodology: a sharp eye focussed tightly on the thing at hand; an affinity for the phrase, often in place of the sentence; the courage to be concise; the wonderful decision not to bore us with mundane details of his psychology. In one poem he declares [to a woman?], "I can't / hear you / I'm just a the / upon / your shore"--a marvelous line, using an original adaptation of syntax to reflect the way a specific being can be reduced to an article. In "Probably a Strong Undertow" he compares the undertow to the power of music, but with such a literalness that the musicians are wading out into the surf as the poem ends. Virtually no poem, even if it is ultimately a failure, is tedious to read, and Wenderoth's voice is confidential and sure