At the heart of these poems are questions that profoundly affect this poet. She welcomes the, often difficult, conversation. "I write wringing / gist from jettison... I write 'til the sky is lit, / advancing over the stone walls, singing." Cole's heartfelt amazement with whatever she is observing - a heron, a pod of beached whales, a man plowing his field - is her recognition of the beauty, cruelty, mortality, joy and injustice that is part of being...
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