Finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. A compendium of clues and the mysteries they point to, THE NATURE THIEF begins in the shadow of a crime: something's amiss. In poems that take the part of felon and victim, detective and witness, judge and jury, the case becomes more puzzling and more ancient: what's gone missing is not only an apple from the Garden, or fire from Olympus, or what Ophelia calls the beauteous majesty...
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