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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe my disappointment is due to the fact that, reading the few poems that accompanied the announcements of her poetlaureateship, I got excited, thinking here was a poet who's building on Marianne Moore -- something that seems pretty rare (Robyn Schiff being the exception) -- who's opened so many d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40686123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Paired Things</strong><br/><br/>Who, who had only seen wings,<br/>could extrapolate the<br/>skinny sticks of things<br/>birds use for land,<br/>the backward way they bend,<br/>the silly way they stand?<br/>And who, only studying<br/>birdtracks in the sand,<br/>could think those little forks<br/>ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1684787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a huge stylistic jump between Ryan's first and second collections. <em>Flamingo Watching</em> is better aligned with the idiosyncrasies in her later work.]]></body>
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