The Angel Dialogues is a book-length suite of poems about a played-out, cynical poet - "the poet who / waits / for the feather to / drop / from the unpredictable / sky." Spiritually fatigued, desperate for that next great poem, he cries out to forces beyond him for help and is visited for the next year by a young iconoclastic woman angel, the angel of our dreams - who, not incidentally, reads Yeats and knew Whitman, and becomes not only...
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