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Colorado Prize winner Teicher, the poetry editor of the Literary Review, tackles the subjects of parenting, love, and memory in his third collection (after To Keep Love Blurry). The best poems are heartfelt explorations of illness and the strains of caring for a child living with severe cerebral palsy: "I can divide all life/ into breath and waiting/ for the next breath, and/ the calm in the troughs/ between." Time hangs over the work...Log In or Sign Up to Read More