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Vivian Shipley, Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems. Louisiana: Louisiana Literature Press, 2003.

Death--and its rehearsal in loss--serves as an overt presence for most of the poems in Vivian Shipley's Gleanings, and when not overt, lurks close to the surface. We die and so do those we love--parents, grandparents, uncles, favorite poets, a teenaged friend of sons, a student--as well as the unknown millions slaughtered in twentieth-century genocides. Yet, despite the frequent ache of grief, these are not despairing poems or ultimately even sad. In a larger sense, these are poems ...

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