false 356528 1 <P>Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.</P> 346696 2000 Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form total:196|5:71|4:85|3:30|2:9|1:1| 196 804 308 17 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 23:22:38 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 23:38:14 -0700 2009
1.) seemingly impenetrable walls of text. -- Though I do like a longer, meandering line break system sometimes, I am not a fan of bricks of text - that is, not unless it is prose poetry.

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The bath has a place in our lives and our place is
Within it we have control of how much hot how much cold
What to pour in how long we want to stay when...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 07:46:23 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 10:36:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 14:16:18 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 12:52:28 -0800 2008
In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden (an excerpt)

" Last night th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:06:29 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:12:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 16:25:44 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 12:26:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 23 20:12:50 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 20:39:29 -0700 2008 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said; I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream; There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me etc. ]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun Dec 23 09:41:14 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 09:44:31 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 01:05:55 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 01:07:27 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jun 30 06:47:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 06:48:21 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Mar 19 13:03:35 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 19 16:52:42 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Nov 10 20:18:45 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 20:18:45 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Nov 13 13:08:12 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:47:54 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:47:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 09:11:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 09:11:57 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=356528