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Frail-Craft.(Brief article)(Book review)

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In this intelligent, often playful collection, by the winner of last year's Yale Younger Poets prize, a series of elliptical vignettes hint at larger, incompletely apprehended narratives. Fisher builds her verse around absences--roads not taken, lovers who have disappeared--and indicts language for its inadequate approximations: "Although here and now is the medium you move through, then and then is the time of your verbs, every ...

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