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Explores the often-fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological figurations, vibrant thought, and late-modern lyrics that seem to test their own boundaries.

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"I have admired Vicki Hearne's poetry for more than a quarter-century, but am still dazzled each time I read through John Hollander's beautifully edited volume of her new and selected poems. The superb title sequence, 'Tricks of the Light,' sustains many rereadings, and is worthy of Hearne's distinguished precursor, Wallace Stevens, who would have delighted in it. Her concerns were horses, dogs, men and women, but above all what Stevens called 'the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind.'" - Harold Bloom"

Tricks of the Light New and Selected Poems

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9780226322414, 978-0226322414
      ISBN10: 0226322416

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the often-fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological figurations, vibrant thought, and late-modern lyrics that seem to test their own boundaries.

      Trade Review
      "I have admired Vicki Hearne's poetry for more than a quarter-century, but am still dazzled each time I read through John Hollander's beautifully edited volume of her new and selected poems. The superb title sequence, 'Tricks of the Light,' sustains many rereadings, and is worthy of Hearne's distinguished precursor, Wallace Stevens, who would have delighted in it. Her concerns were horses, dogs, men and women, but above all what Stevens called 'the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind.'" - Harold Bloom"

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