from her conversational style and makes a poem that's tightly bound and swiftly moving. "I was a monster strange and wild/a walking tree with birdless boughs/and to the fox not food, not friend" begins one such poem, "The Fox and the Neighbors," in which the narrator describes an encounter with a fox looking for food the morning after an ice storm. It's one of the brightest, strongest poems in the collection.from Katie Haegele: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poems of sparkling spontaneity
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