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In language both delicious and precise, poems by MacArthur Fellow Bierds (Flight: New and Selected Poems) inhabit the realm of illusion and the human need for clarity. Here, she begins with Peter Mark Roget, known not just for his essential book of synonyms but for his essay examining an optical illusion in which a wheel moving forward appears (on film) to be moving backward or not at all, to explore truisms within history, language...Log In or Sign Up to Read More