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JOYCE PESEROFF is the author of four books of poems and editor of three additional collections. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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What endures the encroachments of time, history, nature and mortality? Peseroff speculates with a clear-headed, wry look at the world's catalogues and almanacs of largesse -- lilies, Jerry Garcia, men in fog, animal joy -- as well as its sorrow. In startling, original poems full of leaps and digressions that reveal the mind in action, readers will encounter life through a person made raw by observation, a mind processing loss and mortality in a petal, a poet alert to how syntax and language can reconfigure the experience of grief.