One of my favorite poems from this collection is "Praise Them."The birds don't alter space.They reveal it . . . another favorite is "Pillow." There's nothing I can't find under there.Voices in the trees, the missing pagesof the sea.Everything but sleep.*Other excerpts I like:I draw a windowand a man...
A poem is such a tiny thing that strives to contain the entire universe. If one poem hit the target, that would be enough for a lifetime. So it's astonishing how perfect and lovely and stunning fulfilling so many of these poems are.I don't know how Li-Young Lee is able to connect so completely with ...
You can see the progression he was making from the very dense poetry of Rose to the more open-handed recent work. I still struggled a little with some of this, but it's all fairly good. ("Good" meaning "stunning mind-blowing", but we're on a different scale here.) Not my favorite book of his, but th...
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