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In these taut, illuminating essays, Tony Hoagland explores matters of poetic craft—metaphor, tone, rhetorical and compositional strategies—in a buoyant conversational style less that of the scholar than of the serious enthusiast and practitioner.
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An invaluable companion to Jane Kenyon’s poetry, Simply Lasting collects essays, memoir, and criticism about this indispensable poet.
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