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Witte, George. The Apparitioners. Three Rail. 2005. 104p. ISBN 0-9760470-1-2. $19.50. POETRY
Mature in both voice and vision, this poetry debut from Witte (editor in chief, St. Martin's) haunts an upscale, semirural locale that could be any genteel suburb where nature is austere and abundant yet compromised by artifice and paranoia: "So when an animal/somewhere cries out terrified,/ or approaching headlights blindside/the buckled timber on the fence,/the rewards of vigilance/seem so frail that one jogger/ grips our hearts, and the neighbor's inbred hellhound stirs from slumber,/ready to fight." He rhymes often--randomly as …