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The Earth Avails: Poems
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The anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry "reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths" (The New Yorker)
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week
With your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulled the woolen shawl around me while I slept.
That the lightning struck the willow and did not fall—for this I am grateful.
—from "Heaven-Letter"
The Earth Avails evokes an all-but-lost history, when every setting, thought, and action was imbued with ritual: here's the prayer ...