Like Stevens' Jar in Tennessee, Bentley puts a poem into the woods, shaping and reshaping the woods. But then, the woods reshape the poem. Geometries and prepositions, Mary M. on the lam, God and gangsters conspire. These poems talk to you like they like you. They want you to be happy listening to goats and pelicans bleat, admiring leaves set with cuttlefish pounce, crossing the wide humid tongue of Mississippi floodplain, making mothers comfortable...
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