"Vireo by Sally Nacker is a quiet, beautiful book. With nature as its subject, this collection gives voice to the backdrop of our lives. 'Where late the sweet birds sang,' Shakespeare writes, and this might be Nacker's credo. A semi formalist, Nacker uses rhyme with a master's grace, and with the music of both joy and sorrow. Dickinson is her clear foremother-in both subject matter and form-but these poems are at the same time Nacker's own. A lovely...
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