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  <title><![CDATA[The Master Letters: Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to &quot;Dear Master.&quot; Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. &quot;We feel we are in the presence of something entirely new, &quot; says Bonnie Costello in &lt;i&gt;The Boston Review&lt;/i&gt;. &quot;Not even Brock-Broido's wonderful first book, &lt;b&gt;A Hunger&lt;/b&gt;, prepares us for this bold encounter.&quot;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Master Letters: Poems</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucie Brock-Broido]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carrowmore   	<br/><br/>All about Carrowmore the lambs<br/>Were blotched blue, belonging.<br/><br/>They were waiting for carnage or<br/>Snuff. This is why they are born<br/><br/>To begin with, to end.<br/>Ruminants do not frighten<br/><br/>At anything--gorge in the soil, butcher<br/>Nois...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5963307">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read through this book before, but never with the familiarity of Dickinson's letters--and not just the Master Letters, but a full selection of them. It helps. I appreciate more the voice that Brock-Broido uses here, and the way it widens the occasion of writing to someone referred to as &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34980637">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 08:26:27 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[once again this book is blowing my mind....  every time i read it i am overjoyed with the possibilities of wordsmithery and at the same time awesomely humbled by LBB's craft, imagination and poeticninjaskills.  case in point: in the poem &quot;Unholy&quot; there are sultry sea wenches &quot;When I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23557612">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 14:57:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book represents all the trends I hate in contemporary poetry.  Rather than creating an inner world that mirrors the outer world and reflects it back onto itself, this book creates a thinly prescribed inner world that is closed to the common reader.  This book is pretentious and hopelessly acade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35005851">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 27 13:37:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's okay. I've never been a huge Dickinson fan. I think those more familiar with her will enjoy this book. Another reason it was just &quot;okay&quot; was because most of my favorite lines in these poems were taken from letters, not even written by the poet. I find that a bit odd. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has really nice paper. God I hate poetry. Omg I fucking hate poetry.<br/><br/>It all sounds like poetry!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this.  Every single poem does something for me.  One of my favorites.]]></body>
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