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Sleigh follows two award-winning volumes of poetry (Space Walk and Army Cats) with another strong collection focused on mortality: "death's in my face/ when I look at it at just the right angle." The book's title is a Nazi joke and an existential one; its impressive first poem superimposes the Scotch ballade "Mary Hamilton"—about the tragic beheading of a queen's servant—on an impending car crash in contemporary Queens, NY. As an improbable s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More