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In this wide-ranging, provocative, and ambitious collection, Lehman, editor of Scribner's "Best American Poetry" series and an established poet in his own right, offers a rare union of poetic form with the felt cadences of ordinary speech. Pantoums, sestinas, sonnets, and villanelles all serve as vessels of the urbane comment, the arch observation, conversant dialog, and language felt and seen on the page. Few poets of any age ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More