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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed.
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History as Science Fiction
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pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Anatoly Fomenko
Manufacturer: Mithec
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ASIN: 2913621058

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Provocative, appealing and controversial.......2006-08-02

Fomenko has succeeded to convincingly demonstrate the misconception about what "history" factually is... It is fiction and -like we can read and judge for ourselves- no science. It indeed is "make belief" only. I "discovered" Fomenko while studying the "old" history of Al Andaluz, Spain. Having found too many contradictions in available data, having seen too many forgeries as to pretend the importance of christianity for its decline, I ventured out to find Fomenko, who convinced me that we know little if anything for sure of the epoch before the XI-century. However, the integration of the Arabic-Islamic cultural history into the heavily distorted Western fails... There are some attempts to fit "the budding new religion" (Islam) into Fomenko's scheme, but they are too weak to be taken seriously and too often focussing on Turkey as the region where things started to influence the West, which is untrue at all.
Islam certainly was no "new religion" in the X-century. That the highly cultivated Al Andaluz ruler Mohammed-I could have been "mirrored" down in time into some myth about the "illiterate" founder of Islam itself is highly speculative. Nevertheless, Fomenko convinces me about the processes that were involved in forging a christian history. Intriguing and controversial as his books are, I recommend them as to rethink our current position in time and space and simply verify what was claimed. It is a "good" book, but not for bedtime reading... Mundus vult decipi, the world wants to be cheated. Fomenko's readers will understand why.

pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.......2006-02-16

Traces of white wine were found in Tutankhamen's tomb however there were no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd century AD, 1600 years after the young pharaoh died according to the traditional chronology. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925395.400
It can be interpreted as a contribution towards New Chronology theory that pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.

Opening The Invitation: The Poem That Has Touched Lives Around the World

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Opening The Invitation: The Poem That Has Touched Lives Around the World
Oriah
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A beautiful presentation of Oriah's signature prose poem, preceded by a chapter relating the full life story behind the poem and then followed by a chapter on the life of the poem and its remarkable effect on people's lives, including her own.

The prose poem The Invitation was originally passed from reader to reader over the internet and hand-to-hand; it was these readers who helped make the book a best-seller.

This small, beautifully presented book, incorporating the poem and two short additional new chapters by Oriah, gives old and new readers the beloved poem in a fresh way, as a gift for others or oneself. The often moving and sometimes funny chapters give a fresh, full account of how the poem came to be, and then discuss the life of the poem after it was written and circulated to so many readers, via the internet, photocopies, and eventually the full book The Invitation. Artwork will accompany each paragraph of the poem.

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Goldbarth Does it Again!
This won the National Book Critics Circle Award?
The Life This Book Saves May Be Your Own

Saving Lives: Poems
ALBERT GOLDBARTH
Manufacturer: Ohio State University Press
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Goldbarth Does it Again!.......2002-10-25

Simply put, this is a wonderful book, a great addition to any library and a must for any reader interested in Goldbarth's work and his impact on contemporary poetry.

This won the National Book Critics Circle Award?.......2002-06-17

This is just the type of book that wins these types of awards. Goldbarth's poems tend to be prosey and verbose. He has some good ideas behind the poems, and a few good lines. But that isn't what we read poetry for--ideas. Where are the images that can't be forgotten? Where is the play that language does so well? This is a poet like Jorie Graham, one who tries to say something, then gets bogged down with free association. There is some good stuff in the poems, but as a whole they are a let down. The opening poem, "Library" happens to be a poem where this works, but it is a list poem, and you can get a little wordy in those. The book runs a little long for a poetry collection (over 120 pages). Goldbarth could have used a good editor cull it some.

The Life This Book Saves May Be Your Own.......2001-05-10

Albert Goldbarth proves once again that he is one of the undersung masters of American poetry.Saving Lives is easily his best poetry collection since Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology which came out nearly ten years ago. With the opening poem "Library" and through middle ground such as "Her Literal One," Goldbarth weaves a spell of love, magic, and humor. If you've never before dipped into Goldbarth's work, Saving Lives is a great place to start. Though the poet is probably best known for his longer narrative poems and his love of the planets and stars, both become muted here: these are shorter poems than what readers might be used to though their length compromises none of the typical Goldbarthian fire. And while Goldbarth hasn't abandoned his love of hard science and sci fi and all things in between, the poems in this volume stay mostly rooted on earth, focusing on what keeps the human heart beating.

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A "Heart" of gold.
Moving toward the heart

The Lives of the Heart: Poems
Jane Hirshfield
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky writes that Jane Hirshfield "approaches the poem in a way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently." This is true both in her essays about poetry (see Nine Gates) and in her poems. Her recurrent themes of art, nature, and mystery startle the reader in many of these poems. Take, for example, the intriguingly titled "Lying," which is short enough to quote in its entirety: "He puts his brush to the canvas, / with one quick stroke / unfolds a bird from the sky. / Steps back, considers. / Takes pity. / Unfolds another."

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A new volume of poems by the award-winning author of October Palace.

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A "Heart" of gold........2001-08-22

"Take the used-up heart like a pebble/ and throw it far out," Jane Hirshfield writes in one of the eighty-two poems collected here. "You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life" ("Da Capa," p. 19). I arrived at this 1997 book of poetry after reading Hirshfield's equally stunning collection, GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT, earlier this year. These poems are meditations upon the heart, shaped from its interior mysteries. These poems speak to those readers who have also experienced those mysteries.

In a recent interview, Hirshfield said that "the dharma of life" teaches us to notice "our day-to-day interdependence with other people, animals, plants, objects. The experience of interconnection is rubbed into us, hour by hour, until we carry its evidence within us as a kind of patina. Love, loss, desire, hunger, fatigue, grief wear us down into the acknowledgement of our true nature--which is, paradoxically, that we have no true nature separate from everything else. Not one corner of this world is unconnected to all the rest" ("The Bloomsbury Review," July/August 2001). That dharma is evident in these poems.

Many of Hirshfield's poems are drawn from her observations of the natural world. "The rains come," she writes in "The Roses of Nag Hammadi Library," "the deer slip back into the mountains/ like hungry, rose-colored smoke./ They move mouthful by mouthful; pensive,/ they slowly rise" (p. 36). In "Respite," she writes, "Passing the fig tree/ I see it is/ suddenly huge with green fruit,/ which may ripen or not." And "Near the gate," she writes in the same poem, "I stop to watch/ the sugar ants climb the top bar/ and cross at the latch,/ as they have now in summer for years./ In this way I study my life" (p. 49).

"Poetry's work is the magnification and clarification of being," Hirshfield wrote in the Preface to her book, NINE GATES. "Through poetry," she said in the previously-mentioned interview, "we can know our individual lives and all of life more fully, more richly--we're given a broader existence." From the "fragrant carpets of alpine flowers" (p. 3) to salty heartache, Hirshfield wanders the landscape of the human heartland in this truly passionate collection of poetry, showing us how to live life deeply along the way.

G. Merritt

Moving toward the heart.......2001-06-22

I admire and enjoy Jane Hirshfield's work, and, as always, appreciate her audacity in using the word 'heart' (a poetry workshop reject) as the core of her book. On a metaphysical level, heart is all there is, because heart is the essence of a thing. Jane expounds on this assumption by evocatively portraying aspects of the heart to her readers. I highly recommend this book and have turned to it often as inspiration for my own writing; Jane asks not only how, and what, but also why, pointing to the open-ended space at the end of words. Buy the book. (P.S. This review was not an exercise in brevity.)

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Some Undiscovered Poems

Poems That Live Forever
Hazel Felleman
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Some Undiscovered Poems.......1999-10-04

I discovered a number of wonderful poems that I was not familiar with, as well as some old favorites. It even had my favorite, The Cremation of Sam McGee. However, it doesn't have the number of favorites that "Best Loved Poems of the American People" has. Another poetry anthology that I like is "Poetry for a Lifetime" which actually had most of my favorites, and was also illustrated and included comments by the editor for each poem.

Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives

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Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium, wired Posada) and showing a distinctive sense of humor and pathos. The poetry, commissioned especially for the drawings, also showed a fresh and modern take on the icons of Mexicanismo and Chicanismo."-Frontera Magazine

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Introduction
The Lottery
The Hunchback
The Armadillo
Death
The Fly
The Bell
The Horse
The Press
The Smokers
The Pear
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The Rooster
The Bicycle
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The Bat
The Witch
The Friends
The Cactus
God
The Hand
The Fruit
The Pig
The Glutton
The Flight
The Ostrich
The Fall
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The Tree
The Star
The Bottle
The Drunkards
The Scorpion
Corn
Fire
The Clown
Vengeance
The Prodigal Son
The Soldier
The Hunter
The Mermaid
The Lion
The Wrestler
The Wetback
The Immigration Officer
Feet
The Railroad
The Ladder
The Serpent
The Dancer
The Scissors
Eve
Adam
The Plague
Hell
The Giant
The Musicians
The Poet
The Devil
The Goat
The Victim
The Flag
The Canoe
The Circus
The Camel
Bad Government
Sadness
The Sun
The Fish
The Wound
The Chair
The Worker
The Airplane
The Trap
The Heart
The Sword
The Comet
The Beggars
The Cat
The Horseman
The Cow
The Magician
Torture
The Absent One
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Heaven
The Lizard
The Sandals
The Knife
The Hen
The Inspired One
The Deer
The Zapatista
The Dog
The Old Man
The Monkey
The Hanged One
The Eagle
The Bath
The Guardian Angel
The World
The Rose

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Terrific Dueling Aesthetics.......2001-10-18

Cutting edge Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera and young master print maker Artemio Rodriguez of Michoacan Mexico combine as a dynamic duo to produce a book that is more than the sum of its gifts. The two share an obvious affinity of irrepressible hilarity in their work, a Mexican aesthetic of living with and laughing at death present in the darkest issues, the grittiest subjects, simultaneously celebrating in florid imagery in both picture and word the sometimes desperate, sometimes exhilarating vivacity of Mexican American immigrants. At the same time there's enough aesthetic difference between Herrera's hip Bay Area surrealism and Rodriguez's more folkloric technique to exercise friction between the gritty and the sublime, between the dreamlike and the quotidian that depicts well the sometimes dangerous, often moving human drama of exile, immigration and restttlement. Out of the maelstrom of the experience of millions flies this piercing poetry combined, each poem, with a striking print.

"A book about innovation and tradition".......2001-06-07

"A book about innovation and tradition" is how Rupert Garcia describes this book in the useful introduction. I recommend that this is read first, because it helps one to understand the history of Loteria Cards in Mexico and the traditional iconography associated with them. They are actually the fusion of two games, Patolli a game of chance the Aztecs played, and Loteria a European Version of Bingo. In the game the name of the Loteria card is called out rather than the number. It may be a type person, an element or feature of nature, or something elses, and it is often accompanied by a phrase or poem by the caller to further identify the picture on the card. This is origin of the cards, a fusion like so many things in Mexico, has been put into a contemporary setting in this book.

Artemio Rodriguez uses a mixture of traditional iconography and modern images to produce beautiful Linocuts for the images of the Loteria Cards. They look both traditional Mexican and old (they remind me of woodcuts by Dürer), yet contemporary and modern at the same time. Each is distinct and unique.

The poems by Juan Felipe Herrera go very well with the Linocuts, and they too are a mixture of traditional Mexican, Chicano and modern subject-matter. They show that beliefs, feelings, and emotions carry over in time, space, language and culture. Some remain the same, while others change. The mix they create is in a constant state of metamorphosis, becoming undefinable, yet staying distinct.

The presentation of the book is beautiful, the cover, binding, paper, and printing are al well-done. Each page has a Loteria Cards and a poem that accompanies it. I really recommend this book. It is a thoughtful and beautiful present to give to someone who appreciates the combination of tradition, modernism, art, poetry...

amazing -- the ideal collaboration.......2000-11-08

I bought this book last year to give to a friend and after leafing through it, decided I couldn't part with it. Rodriguez's prints are rich, beautiful, terrifying -- but it is Herrera's words I fell in love with. Each poem is it's own mystery. These are perfect pieces, perfectly married to their accompanying images, and make one incredible poetic whole.

If you like poetry, you'll love this book.......2000-01-09

This is a brilliant collaboration between Herrera and Rodriguez. Herrera's poems, as always, are thought provoking and innovative, linguistically and intellectually, and they are a perfect match for Rodriguez's linocuts, which are also innovative and thought provoking. This is a book that you'll want to read over and over again for years to come. WOW!

Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford

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Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford
William Stafford
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This collection of poems by National Book Award winner William Stafford reflects his struggles with the world as well as his delight in and respect for the earth. In straightforward language, the poems convey complex feelings and ideas about earth-loving and earth-keeping and will inspire all of us to savor each day and its small miracles.

Remembering to Live: Visual Poems for the Journey

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Thought provoking words and images
passion and vision
A wonderful read.
Deeply Moving
Remembering to Live

Remembering to Live: Visual Poems for the Journey
Mark L. Tompkins
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"Remembering to Live" is about the struggle for emotional, professional, and spiritual growth, as well as related struggles (particularly their humorous sides)...from love to heartbreak, from peace to fear, from spirituality to fortune cookies. Mark Tomkins matches photographs with text and creates Visual Poems that are expressive and multidimensional. He is an author and an award-winning photographer whose work is exhibited internationally.

"Visual Poems come into being with a force all their own, not so much through the processes of writing and photography, as through getting out of their way and letting them into the world. With only the vaguest claim of 'authorship' they are brought to you...enjoy." Mark Tompkins

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Thought provoking words and images.......2003-05-11

Mark L. Tompkins wonderfully shares his perspective of the world with us through his beautiful poems and photography.

passion and vision.......2003-04-21

This book is so easy to personally identify with. The poems and photographs inspire my own vision and passion; not someone elses. I keep it on my coffee table and refer to it a moment at a time.

A wonderful read........2003-03-16

I received the book as a gift and it now resides among my other collection on the coffee table. It's a wonderfully insightful look into the trials and tribulations of the human "condition" with photography that is both poignant and storytelling in itself. There's probably a little bit of us all in this book..

Deeply Moving.......2003-03-12

Fabulous read and a fantastic gift for someone you care about! Almost every poem touched me in some way. I feel a real connection with the messages Mark Tompkins imparts, his themes of slowing down to live each moment, making your life count for something, moving through the moments of pain and disappointment, etc. His photographs that are paired with the poems are breathtaking and poignant. I can't recommend this enough!

Remembering to Live.......2003-03-09

A book filled with beautiful sentiments in addition to beautiful photographs. Mr. Tompkins reveals much about himself in both his poetry and his pictures and by doing so, as the name of the book implies, he encourages each one of us to remember to live, and reminds us of the common thread that we all share with the rest of humanity.

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A Masterful Improvisation!

Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems
Richard Jackson
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A Masterful Improvisation!.......2004-08-09

The poems render love in its many manisfestations in ways that are imaginative, passionate, and original.

The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour

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The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour
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Man and Camel: Poems
Selected Poems

ASIN: 0375709754
Release Date: 2002-02-26

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Mark Strand is one of our finest contemporary American poets. The republication of The Story of Our Lives, with The Monument and The Late Hour, a collection of three out-of-print works written in the 1970s, is a testament to Strand's versatility and intellect. The Story of Our Lives is primarily an evocative lament for the author's deceased father, mulling over the questions and frustrations presented when someone close dies, as showcased in the deeply moving "Elegy for My Father": "It is over and nobody knows you." The second book, The Monument, could loosely be described as a series of prose poems utilizing lines from other works, such as those of Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, and Friedrich Nietzsche, as Strand presents an amusingly irreverent jab at the seriousness with which many poets (including himself) take themselves and their aspirations of having their works achieve immortality. The last book, The Late Hour, exhibits Strand's characteristic dreamlike quality--images have a sparse and haunting beauty about them, and patterns of quiet thought are reworked in a still, dark night. It's as if, while peering into that dark, one catches a glimpse of something in the periphery, and the residue of that brief image is what Strand explores--the space between what is and isn't there, between light and dark. Also, a prescient recitation of our aspirations of self-understanding and self-improvement can be found here, as in "Lines for Winter": "tell yourself / in that final flowing of cold through your limbs / that you love what you are." This collection serves as a welcome reintroduction to Mark Strand's earlier works. --Michael Ferch

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Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, including Blizzard of One, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990, and currently teaches at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.

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