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Site Specific: New & Selected Poems by Elaine Sexton reviewed by Ann Van Buren
It is not often that a poet’s body of work merits a retrospective collection. Elaine Sexton’s does.
Ann Van Buren
Death Machine
because the dead couldn’t speak
Tara Skurtu
Two Poems
Late afternoon, crows still at gossip
Sydney Lea
So Glad She Didn’t Live to See It
What will it be, the thing they say
Mary Jo Salter
Three Poems
I remember a ditch of cattails, learning their names. How they rose by the bridge
Jane Springer
Three Poems
Fish-shaped, dark brown,
Gary Soto
Quandary
Yamina arrived one morning to clean my rooms,
Sharon Dolin
A Brief History
When I close my eyes I can still hear
Christopher Buckley
Echo (and Narcissus)
I saw it in midcentury
Christina Pugh
Three Ibises in the Rain
That’s how it was early this morning--
Billy Collins
Two Poems
You’d think somebody would’ve put those six
Ron Smith