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Voice-Over

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If you delight in language that is at once absolutely clear and playfully enigmatic and if you think that poetry should speak to us of the shape of our perceptions, the cadence of our own voices, the thrill of a fresh and breathing world, you will love this work. This collection delights in the way that a book of pictures from some land you have never visited might. The poems are evocative and fresh, conveying a sense of a world that invites us to visit.

While Estes's subjects may seem intellectually challenging--Giotto and Le Corbusier, for example--her approach to those subjects is inveterately human, humble, and sometimes even joyfully irreverent. She plays with words in the most delightful and delighted manner, and she handles irony with sweetness and joy rather than using it to cudgel or distance her reader.
Every word is chosen with such care, every motif with such attention, that by the end of each poem, we feel as though we have listened to the most well wrought and lyrical song of Schubert.

I very strongly recommend Estes's collection. It is a joy to read, and its echoes will remain in your memory long after you close this book.