From the intriguing title "Hand Me My Shadow" to the explorations of lives both real and imagined, this manuscript carries the reader into new terrain. Robert Frost once said that we admire "the straight crookedness of a good walking stick." He was talking, of course, about iambic pentameter, which this manuscript supplies in abundance--not Victorian sing-songy rhythms, but rhythms of the human voice distilled, a straight crookedness that helps us make the journey. The result? To quote Frost again, "a temporary stay against chaos." I like the way these poems narrate, speak out, and think their way through experience, whether the speaker is witnessing the gelding of a stallion or weighing the costs of war or celebrating the natural world. This manuscript catalogues the humanity of wildness inside the everyday.--Lance Larsen, Judge for the 2007 Pearle M. Olsen Publication Award -- goodreads
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