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Life & Death
by Robert Creeley
New Directions, 1998
0-8112-1384-6
THE MIRROR

Seeing is believing.
Whatever was thought or said,

these persistent, inexorable deaths
make faith as such absent,

our humanness a question,
a disgust for what we are.

Whatever the hope,
here it is lost.

Because we coveted our difference,
here is the cost.

Review by Tom Clark
Jacket: Prairie Dwelling VIII, Denny Moers, 1996
Photo: Sunday Star, Auckland, New Zealand, 1995
Order from: New Directions, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011


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