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Finalist for the 2003 CT Book Award in Poetry
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The Water Carrier
by Steve Straight
"Capacious and compassionate, humorous and whole-hearted, these poems guide us toward each other, toward community. They relish life, they affirm it..." -- Margaret Gibson
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These skillfully crafted poems cover a wide range of topics—love, marriage, family, work, class issues. Not since E. A. Robinson has anyone captured the essence of the New England town with such a keen observation. What gives this volume its distinctive voice is a Buddhist calm, tinged with irony and humor. Steve Straight touches the ordinary things of life with a magical whimsy (as in the title poem and Therapy) and a delightful self-deprecating humor (as in The Deepest Breath).
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