Great Regulars: Still, there is nothing

in these pages anywhere near as implausible as what occurs routinely in works of magical realism. What is hard to deal with--though necessary to depict--is the sheer gruesomeness of many episodes.

For Josip, poetry is tantamount to prayer and his practice of it a kind of sainthood--in Eliot's phrase, "A condition of complete simplicity/(Costing not less than everything)."

from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: One man's faith survives brutal trials

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