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  <title><![CDATA[Siste Viator]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;This book is for those of us who want to read more poetry but are frequently stopped by its--what is it? Its chilly self-seriousness? Its unwillingness to hold our hand every so often, while cracking an easy joke? Either way, Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece). Poetry-fearers, don't back away from this beautiful book; these might be the pages that bring you back into the form.&quot; --Dave Eggers</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Siste Viator</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sarah Manguso]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 20 00:56:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 20 00:57:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Manguso were a comedienne, her stand-up act would consist of a loosely tied-together series of witty one-liners that aspire to pithy profundity and sometimes achieve it.  Some of her more successful attempts at coining Zen-like adages include:  &quot;My back is marked with my blood but I can't se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6481772">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 21 12:20:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 02 21:36:00 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book struck me as more quickly written and less considered than her first book, which I thought excellent. There are some terrific phrases and surprising turns, but many poems feel freighted with imposing themes and religious postures imbedded in smallish improvisations. Manguso's still very mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8030202">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strong work. Out-there connections, but am fairly easily carried along on the confidence of this poet. Need to get her first collection.]]></body>
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    <review id="49559488">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great collection.]]></body>
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    <review id="58878130">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 08 11:32:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 11 08:29:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Merged review:<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="6601337">
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 22 08:59:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 14 06:42:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are incredibly confident poems.  Though the syntax and music fall just a bit short sometimes, they do so to make very distinct rhetorical points.  I look forward to seeing more from her.  Also very happy to see Four Way Books putting out such excellent material (read Deborah Bernhardt's <em>Echola...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6601337">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Aug 05 20:12:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Good, but it didn't compare to her first book--for many reasons.  Most notably:  it is just a different project.  But I was disappointed because I came to expect something similar to The Captain Lands in Paradise.<br/><br/>If someone else had written this, I probably would have liked it bett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4127102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20208141">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The light was shooting out of my eyes again.<br/>I had a tattoo on my wrist, it was cool, <br/>It meant I was all powerful.<br/>My name terrified me, I whispered it.<br/>Every metaphor was the one about drugs.<br/>SPAGHETTI ALLA CARBONARA! nothing was safe from that metaphor...&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="2834423">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 08 12:07:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just can't bring myself to apply a star ranking to a book of poetry.  It feels weird.  This should maybe make me rethink starring the rest of the books I read but, well, I just kind of like it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2834423]]></url>
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    <review id="26687549">
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 08 15:14:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[These poems are intriguingly unbalanced; the language is smooth and polished, but the emotional cracks in the pottery are showing. The seams are tactile and rough. ]]></body>
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    <review id="19428396">
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    <body><![CDATA[this book gave me creepy feelings. that's a good thing. disarmingly straightforward. I'm jealous.]]></body>
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    <review id="30976429">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 23 07:09:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a strong, vibrant, often funny voice here.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="26488524">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[bummer. i liked her first book SO much more...<br/><br/>]]></body>
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