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Mlinko's readers have come to expect language teased to high ebullience yet constrained by strictly applied traditional poetics. Her fifth collection (after Marvelous Things Overheard) will not disappoint. The poet offers an impressionistic travelog that translates the physical and mythic dimensions of her destinations (Cypress, Texas, Marrakech, the route of the monarch butterfly) into rococo tongue twisters ("children chisel fridge magnet...Log In or Sign Up to Read More