Swithering
BY Robin Robertson
Harcourt, $16.00

Shortly into Swithering you intuit you're in grown-up hands, and that the poet is writing from a set of concerns thought hard about before the poems were even begun. To "swither" means to fret or worry—what, exactly, is Robertson in a swither about? About the human fitin nature, is one answer; about the soul's fit in the body, is another. Behind both ...

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Other Summers
BY Stephen Edgar
Black Pepper,

Of Australia, David Malouf writes: ...

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		Real Sofistikashun Tony Hoagland Graywolf Press, $15.00			Toward the Distant Islands Hayden Carruth Copper Canyon Press, $17.00
		Recyclopedia Harryette Mullen Graywolf Press, $15.00			Tokyo Butter Thylias Moss Persea Books, $24.00
		Natural History Dan Chiasson Knopf, $23.00			Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry Dave Smith Louisiana State University Press, $25.00

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