Title: Allbery is a people's poet
Review: One glimpses an amazing inner life in Walking Distance, a dark sense of humor--the real, somber music of midwestern childhood. One of my favorite lines: "Back then I prayed nights out of the same superstition that kept me from using the coffee table Bible as a coaster..." These are stories as well as poems, songs which resonate with and retrieve forgotten smirkings and smiles at the constant, odd, beautiful sadness of life. Excellent!
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