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This is one of my favorite books of poetry written in the last thirty years. I'm mentioning it on here because it's been such a useful tool for me as a writer. It includes some really famous poems, such as "Meditation at Lagunitas." That, you can find online here: http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/8... It's a sort of elegy to language, with a few jabs at deconstructionism, all mixed with a heavy dose of lyrical beauty.... But there are other poems in the book that I continually return to when I am hard up for a poetic idea, or poetic language. Hass has this casual sentence structure that, if you mimic it, allows you to talk about complicated ideas in manageable language. One example, from "The Beginning of September," is: The child is looking in the mirror. His head falls to one side, his shoulders slump. He is practicing sadness. Not a brilliant passage, but, it's simple in its observation, and complex, I think, in what it chooses to observe.

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