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The Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series, inaugurated in 1989 with the publication of Sunday by Thomas Lux, and now in its eighteenth anniversary year, numbers more than seventy-five titles. This series has gained widespread praise for reissuing significant out-of-print books by important American poets including Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, James Tate, Jon Anderson, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dobyns, Carol Muske, Amy Gerstler, Larry Levis, Elizabeth Spires, James Welch and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Most of the poems in Snow Water Cove, both lyric and narrative, deal with a mythical town in the Adirondack Mountains. Many are poems of childhood, but with a controlled, sensible nostalgia. The dramatis personae range through voices diverse as a florist’s widow, an alcoholic state engineer, a mortician’s god-daughter, and the broken fantasia of an ingénue model. This is a rare and consoling collection. |
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November 9, 2010
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