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This third poetry collection from McLane (Same Life; World Enough) is replete with searching poems—"how can I be in this world?"—and poems celebrating nature and travel. McLane possesses an eye for the specific details of a place—"scant pines/ stagger the apennines/ semaphoring"—and can dig deeper to capture both its beauty and its political history: "the snowdrops ungeared for fighting/ yet strive they do to live in this suddenly/ coldened place." McLane's style is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More