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5.0
Really wonderful--when I heard Eleanor read from this, her newest collection, she apologized that the middle section was written "during the Bush years, so it's kind of...bummer lit," and that's not such a bad assessment. This poems, over all, mourn our inability to learn from past mistakes, especially when it comes to war and suffering, she seems to suggest is our greatest cultural strength (sigh). Wilner's perennial interest in Hellenic culture remains, but only insomuch as it informs contemporary comment on man's love affair with cultivating his own tragedy. In other words: bangarang.
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