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312 pages, Hardcover
First published January 10, 2012
Over time, a bookshop will take the shape of its owner. Emily had been at the Green Man so long that it had grown around her like a second skin. The books were her flesh; the words that flowed through them were the blood that ran through her veins. The poetry section was the beating heart of the collection. (66)If the above passage speaks to you, then you're probably the right reader for this book. It doesn't matter your age, if you feel more at home in a secondhand bookstore than say, at your actual home, you'll settle into this book's atmosphere like a cat into a pile of freshly laundered clothes. If the idea that poets are all "crazy people" with a special perspective of our world (and maybe even other worlds), add this book pronto.