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"Spires ponders the balance between her liberty as an individual and her captivity by love....[She] investigates the tension between self-interest and human ties....Spires is routinely compared to Elizabeth Bishop, and with good reason: both employ elegant diction and rhythms and often seem more in sympathy with nature than with human society. but Spires...injects personal material into her verse in a way Bishop never dared....[L]ucidly and nakedly...this beautiful book convey[s] universal feelings...Spires, Elizabeth is the author of 'Worldling Poems', published 1997 under ISBN 9780393316285 and ISBN 0393316289.
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