what's left , a book in six related sections, presents us with cues and clues to the poet's compositional strategies. The first section, "hazelnut," measures time as the unfolding life of space. It alludes to mclennan's long-term genealogy project, in which he discovers traces of the Sumerian flood, Etruscans, Icelanders, and Robert the Bruce hidden in "Indian Lands," waiting to be discovered like "gilded coffins in Egypt, undisturbed, as yet," along...
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