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The poems vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet's acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world's things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames.Michael Longley is the author of 'Weather in Japan', published 2012 under ISBN 9780916390969 and ISBN 0916390969.
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