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  <title><![CDATA[Homage to Mistress Bradstreet]]></title>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the title poem -- which is essential, great poetry (5 stars for a long poem). The rest (3 stars) you can probably skip without feeling you've missed anything.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 18:54:38 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first trip through the title poem--a really trippy raising of a dead soul. I can't quite grasp it, what I mean to say. . . the sum of this poem is greater than its parts, definitely. Bradstreet appears, gripes, the poet talks to her a bit, all in a highly condensed, clawingly distorted style. . ....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34692647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite a lovely poem with lovely illustrations.  I recommend reading it in the middle of the river perched on a rock in the early fall.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the great poems. I read it at least every six months and am surprised and amazed each time.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tightly wound metaphysical wit, confessional verse for history geeks and breeder pioneers. ]]></body>
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