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June 01, 2010 07:30 PM
PATRICIA FARGNOLI
According to Mary Oliver, Patricia Fargnoli, "does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of our continual aging." Then, Something ($16.95 Tupelo) is Fargnoli's fourth full-length collection of richly personal poems. Biographical details of a distant father and a distant husband -- "our third child / thumped in my belly. He hadn't come home; / he never came home. It was 1 a.m. I was twenty-three" -- share space with details of aging -- "what I left behind when I moved / to this senior apartment -- some feeling of usefulness, / half of my books." Hers is a passionately offered vision of the approaching unknown – "a piano / casts its notes into the great absence, // which is where I've been heading -- all along."
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