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In this second wise and passionate book, Tom Andrews explores illness as a major theme, avoiding sentimentality without being merely confessional. He advances his considerable talent with great strength and forcefulness. The poems ae buoyant with humor and mindful of larger mysteries even as they investigate very personal issues. There is an urgency that is compelling; the work is immersed in the private grief of the speaker without excluding the reader. There is real and hard-won wisdom and intelligence in the poems, offering genuine surprises and delight; their attractive humility is not
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Pamela Alexander's poetry is characterized by inventive language, scrupulous accuracy of imagery, and a winning fusion of the comic and the deeply serious. Her subjects vary as widely as her settings, which range from the New Hampshire woods to the Arizona desert. A family life eccentric to the point of chaos, close observations of wildlife, and coastal sailing are among the poet's topics.
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The blues of the sky provide the mood, and more than a handful of birds--magpies, curlews, hummingbirds, jackdaws--are sent into the open spaces that Heffernan, a tranquil, philosophical poet who sees the universe with the help of ""the inmost eye in the middle of me,"" stirs up in this, his fourth collection, winner of the 1993 Iowa Poetry Award. Showing a spare, musical touch combined with a masterful sense of color, the most captivating poems explore the nature of things, the unchartered places where objects intersect or connect, especially where the human gives way to the divine, as in ""A
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Angel, Interupted is Reginald Shepherd's second poetry collection. The poems are lyrical, streetwise and contemporary, yet timeless, classically referential, and introspective.
American poetry --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 1900-1999
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In Peter Meinke's eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension, he invites us to laugh at ourselves as well.
American poetry --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 1900-1999
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American poetry --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 1900 - 1999
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American poetry --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 1900-1999