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An artful, compelling new collection from �a special poet in every sense� (Poetry) The poems in Debora Greger�s new book journey from Florida to England to Venice, finding in the byways and accidents of travel the ghostly presences that mark the poet�s passage from youth half-forgotten to the edge of old age: the younger self that, like some heroine in Henry James, she catches glimpses of and barely recognizes; the long-dead poets unable to sleep, with things still on their mind. The elegies threaded through this mature, startling book recognize life moving toward the shadows�these are poems of old responsibilities and new virtues, looking back as a way of looking forward. (less)

An artful, compelling new collection from �a special poet in every sense� (Poetry) The poems in Debora Greger�s new book journey from Florida to England to Venice, finding in the byways and accidents of travel the ghostly presences (…more)