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In the first line of this ruminative and personal new book by Doty, winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, we find the poet on his knees rustically pulling up wild mustard. But the tone dampens down quickly; by line three he's "talking to the anvil of darkness." As he plunges beneath the surface to find "the wild unsayable," the poet soon encounters "the roar// i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More