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In her 24th collection, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Lifetime Achievement award winner Howe searches for a philosophy of living: "What should we do? What can we do? Take off your shoes/ you've Walked far enough." Sometimes, the poet slyly pokes fun at life: "If a shoe is lying on a highway/ It indicates an accident." Some metaphors shimmer ("A bird's cherry-pit heart pulsed between two bones"). Yet others leave readers perplexed, "Their backpacks like skunks curled in the shade." Howe pays tribute to earlier artists and wr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More