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pturnbull's review
5.0
These are gorgeous, lyric poems all about the lives of individuals from Wisconsin's far north where "mailboxes beheaded by the plow / blend in with black brush." Chronister's poems let images tell the story and they are deep and human and universal and profound. "His dead wife's nightgown / hangs on the back / of the bathroom door / like a fragile / forget-me-not pressed / between pages." I'm happy to have been introduced to Chronister's work here--these collected poems are a treasure.
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