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Title: Slightly Uneven Poetry but Wonderful Storytelling
Review: While I think that Arnoult's poetic voice is somewhat weaker than her wonderful prose inSufficient Grace: A Novelthe storytelling in these poems is still striking such that it stays with me months after reading it. My favorite is "Learning Strategy at English Field" which describes Arnoult and her ex-mother in law wathching Arnoult's son play baseball with Arnoult returning in her memory to her own time as a "rising senior" watching her future husband play baseball at the same field. Several other poems are similarly evocative including these lines from Angels: "And I'm not ready to be a grandma. What's going to happen to us? I'm just thirty-five you know." From a woman falling in love with her 15 year old daughter's child.
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