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Vagrant Grace, by David Bottoms. Copper Canyon Press. $14.00.

The word "grace" has several meanings. It refers to elegance and beauty, pleasance and charm. The word's root is Latin, via Old French: gratia, from gratus, meaning pleasing. But it has acquired another layer of significance: it refers to divine assistance, unmerited gifts, and the favor or sanctification of the Christian God. This religious usage gives the word a kind of mystery, a hiddenness, as though it described something just beyond the reach of our normal ideas or ways of speaking. We often use ...

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