false 3548480 9781886350427 7 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214427335m/3548480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3548480.Watering_the_Dead 1500996 Jason Irwin 9 4 4 0 false Sat Oct 18 09:21:32 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 12:10:12 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 09:21:32 -0700 2008
I've never been partial to narrative poems-- I always ideologically preferred poems with metaphysical whizbang, words meant to detonate, not simmer. But reading this book made me rethink that pose, because there's something quiet & careful & accurate here that aims at a different type of transcendence. In this case specificity becomes universality, in a very rewarding way.]]>