Miriam O'Neal's The Half-Said Things is a book both meditatively considerate and bitingly eloquent. These are domestic poems on the edge of wilderness, poems from empty rooms in crowded houses, poems delighting in language and ripe with depth. "So I take my missing with me like a parting / gift of roses" she writes, reflecting lyrically on life and death from a calm, wisely wary place of earned experience, strength and knowing acceptance. -...
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