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Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin)

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He does the things that you can't learn in school. I understand what he means when he says, "I mean the sea and its enormous restraint," but I can't explain how I understand. He has found some angle in the words that we recognize. I give him less than five stars because I believe that he is deliberately modest, and has no interest in being Auden, or Eliot, or anything but what he is. That's enough for him and enough for me. These are only, and deliberately, "earthly meditations." The style isn't always the man, but this time it is. Fine poems.

Robert Wrigley is one of my favorite poets, he writes beautifully. This is an excellent collection of his work.

I'm trying to recreate my paper library into a Kindle one, and I was pleased to see two of Wrigley's previous books offered at affordable prices. They are easy to navigate with a live Table of Contents. I commend the publisher for offering his work for Kindle and for offering it at a lower price. I hope they add some of his earliest work as well.

Robert Wrigley is an amazing poet. If you are looking for something that will give a good idea what he is about, this is it. I recently met him myself at reading. I highly recommend this book and to see him in read/talk.