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The Lice by W. S. Merwin

moonpix's review against another edition

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4.0

Basically what I expected/hoped Wendell Berry would be

Favorites: It Is March, In Autumn, The Dream Again, For the Anniversary of My Death, Fly

"One thing about the living sometimes a piece of us
Can stop dying for a moment
But you the dead

Once you go into those names you go on you never
Hesitate
You go on"

slimikin's review

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1.0

Much too dependent on mythology and arbitrary author-determined symbolism for my taste. Also, would it kill you to use some punctuation? If I spend all my time trying to figure out where the commas and the semicolons go, I don't have any time to sift for meaning...or even a bit of crisp diction amid all the muddled language.
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