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adrianasturalvarez's review
4.0
These poems sing high above the reader and it is so easy to be carried away by the melody in them, though they are certainly grounded in craft and structure often only discernible on a second or third reading. For the past year I've been reading the Norton Anthology of Poetry (the 5th looong edition) which has brought me rigorously from Caedmon's Hymn through Milton to about halfway through the book to the Romantics over the course of the last 10 months. Getting back to poems written in the last 30 years is a breath of fresh, fresh air. Given their context in my reading life, I'm not sure whether I enjoyed these poems more intensely for their contemporary references and rhythms but I really enjoyed them. I highly recommend this short volume.
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