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And (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
And - Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Author: Debora Greger
ISBN-13: 9780691014234
ISBN-10: 069101423X
Pages: 94
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Paperback
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tracymar avatar reviewed And (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) on + 408 more book reviews
Although I am a poet, I'm not a fan of a lot of contemporary poetry. Much of it seems to me to be too obscure, or word games with little substance. Although in some poems Debora Greger's words float on the page without discernible meaning, many of her poems have an easy clarity and lyricism. She also often surprises with unexpected choice of words or imagery.

For example, from my favorite in this collection, Queen of a Small Country, Greger wrote:
Queen of a small country unplundered
by schools' geography lessons,
she inherited a land like the town
I grew in, plantain and clover
plaited into crowns..."