The poems in Joyce Wilson's Take and Receive combine a remarkable clarity of insight with a honed sense of the possibilities inherent in formal verse. In "The Entry of the God," a poem about married life, the perfect iambic line "We bought a house that no one else would want" offers a sudden, sure look at the couple in question, united in choosing what has been overlooked, in finding their own way. With geographies as close as the poet's own garden...