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In the poem that gives title to this collection, sugar--precious, warm, quickly used up, and easily lost--is a metaphor for time. Sugar was the rare commodity that brought borrowers to the door of Hillman's barely remembered childhood home in Brazil: "Later--the rest of my life--time resembles warm sugar, something almost imaginary having to do with asking." Underlined by the book's section titles--"space/time," "time/alchemy," "prob...Log In or Sign Up to Read More