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poetryamano's review
5.0
What's great about this book is how C.K. Williams takes his usual long line and fits into a book of short poems, each one eight lines long. You get to see how the lyrical and intense a longer, narrative, meditative line can be. Standouts include: Elms, First Desires, the Love series, and his elegy on Paul Zweig. I reread this for the moments where the poems move beyond narrative and philosophical rumination into song.
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