Haunting and spare, The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind is obsessed with fate's fickle nature. Propelled by internal rhyme, these lyric poems draw on fairy tales and fables, stories from the Bible and from Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, their characters blown hither and thither by mythic winds--but -inevitably, toward an awareness of mortality. Inside the Dog-Fish Wide as the church, the sea, the cavern,
hard as a...
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