We are still here on earth. With a troubled sense of wonder, Jeffrey Wainwright's new book witnesses to that earth's ordinariness, profusion, and mystery. The collection begins with his beginning, a poem that evokes his own birth: 'Here I Come.' He concludes inevitably with 'Here I Go.' In between are poems that describe and contemplate on the variety of life, ranging from a fleeing mouse to geology and gravity. History features, as so often in his...
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