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** spoiler alert ** A lovely volume of poems. My favorite was Out of the Bag with the line “All of is came inDoctor Kerlin’s bag.�� A poem about childbirth. Sonnets from Hellas were good to especially Conkers. Loved the lines:

“Tramping on burst shells and crunching down
The high-gloss horse-chestnuts. I thought of kelp
And foals�� hooves, bladderwort, dubbed leather
As I bent to gather them, a hint of ordure��

Audensque a poem in memory of his friend Joseph Brodsky is both poignant and funny. With lines like:

“Politically incorrect
Jokes involving sex and sect,
Everything against the grain,
Drinking, smoking like a train.

In a train in Finland we
Talked last summer happily,
Swapping manuscripts and quips,
Both of us like cracking whips��

This collection of poems is a little gem.