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laurelinwonder's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars. Townsend’s poetry flourishes with healthy awareness of the physical or emotional connections between humans and nature. However, the poet also expresses consternation over the encroachment of humans upon nature. By exercising greater control and restraint in her poetry, while continuing to focus closely on detailed imagery concerning the condition of her natural surroundings and preserving an elevated level of empathy for others. However, some of the poems in her previous collection seemed successful in their attempt to overwhelm a reader with a deluge of imagery or rhetoric, honed surfaces of the work. It was lovely, it just didn't always capture me.
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