In a cinquain titled "Fate," Mary E. Moore describes her subject this way: Clamping its teeth firmly on that which comes to hand, it bites down, regardless of fault or faith. Thanks to dark humor and forceful imagery, the poet has managed, within the scant twenty-two syllables allowed by the form, to dispense with the role of either morality or religious belief in human life. Again and again in this thoroughly satisfying collection-a dazzling array...
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