Poetry. The poems of Lawrence Raab are accessible yet mysterious, their complexities an aspect of (and sometimes hidden by) their clarities. The title of his ninth collection suggests both the life we live and another life alongside--what might have been but wasn't, yet remains in the imagination. "The casual tone," Mark Strand has written of Raab's work, "the offhand remark, are not only the means by which sense establishes itself, but also...
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