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Like those in Wright's 2009's Sestets, the lyrical meditations in this latest collection consider the impermanence of human existence within the relative permanence of the natural world. On the threshold of 80 ("This is an old man's poetry"), the poet faces mortality with a candid, if often deflating, awareness that eventually we find ourselves "surrounded by everything we have failed to d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More