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pickfordm
, April 20, 2014
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I should mention that Vivian Demuth is a friend of mine. Even if we weren't friends, though, I'd savor this book. She is a wonderful and humane writer. A lover of nature, she often draws her inspiration from her experiences as a park ranger in Canada. Her descriptions of the land, the wildlife, and her adventures during the summers she's worked there, are vivid and full of warmth. In her poems, she breathes life into her environment, to the animals and plants, anthropomorphizes them without depleting them of their unique essence.
Another thing I love about Vivian's poems is that they are accessible. I mean this as a compliment, for she manages to do so without sacrificing the quality or intellect or knowledge of poetics. I felt very comfortable living in the worlds she's created here.
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