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Smelling Mary

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I don't read much contemporary poetry, and I'm not easily pleased with what I read anyway, but "Smelling Mary" is a different kind of work: You don't have to be a lover of poetry to fall in love with this book. You don't even have to be a lover of language. You can be a scientist, or a mathematician, or one of those people who solve every one of the NY Times puzzles every week, and still, you'll be intrigued and fascinated with this book. It's a beautiful work, but that's not all; it's also groundbreaking in that it uses poetry as a means to reveal the essential constructs of logic and understanding.

I have long been admirer of poetry, but, of late, have encountered nothing but a deluge of insipid banality, until, now, until -- SMELLING MARY, this is a milestone, a paradigm shift as significant as "Leaves of Grass," this is the real stuff and finally, once more, my zest for the written word has been re-ignited, don't wait, don't hesitate -- Grab it/Buy it!!!