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Reviewed on September 15, 2003
Like many first collections of poetry, this one is rooted in childhood-this time in the Texas flatlands, where the speaker's mother read and reread Hallmark cards "as if her heart could focus to fit the card." Winner of the Breadloaf Bakeless Prize for a first book of poems (with a foreword by poet Yusef Komunyakaa), Cusp moves from childhood and adolescence in a world of rodeos, dust, and demolit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More