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June 18, 2010 07:30 PM
JENNIFER BOYDEN
The Mouths of Grazing Things, Jennifer Boyden's first full-length collection ($14.95), received the Brittingham Prize from the Univ. of Wisconsin Press. Of these poems, Albert Goldbarth wrote, "complexity of mind… given to us in such lucid packages." So true. Boyden hales from the Walla Walla area and that lovely, direct, and functional landscape is echoed in her fine work. "Driving: // All night around the same town / with the radio up. We knew / every song whole; they saved us / from the same conversation." And whimsy is hers to use, too -- "I showed God the pool of fish because / he said no one thought he had a sense of humor. Look, // I said, these are funny."
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