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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1999
In his second collection, Coffey steps back from the exhilarating linguistic experimentalism of his first, Elemenopy, into a more familiar, domestic lyric posture. Route 87 North is the leg of the New York Thruway that runs to Saranac, the poet's boyhood home and the inspiration for poems like "Adirondack Sounds," in which the narrator tries to instill in his young son a sense of geographic root...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
