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Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems ROBERT WRIGLEY. Penguin, $20 (178p) ISBN 0-14-303779-6
Wrigley (Lives of the Animals, 2003) has been offering up well-crafted, articulate and largely autobiographical free verse since the 1970s, often reflecting his Great Plains roots or his longtime residence among the woods of northern Idaho. This ample career-spanning selection shows how little the essence of his carefully wrought poems appears to have changed: the notion that "the body's one life, constant, expansive, simultaneous" informs all his observations and invocations, cast, often, into sinuously …
