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Title: Fantastic.
Review: Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (Louisiana State University Press, 2000)Judy Jordan writes dense, exquisite poems that both shock and satisfy, while making you feel vaguely like taking a shower afterwards."...it informs the toads,crouches them in crooked caves of alder roots,pulses the pale skin under their slack mouths,keeps them in the pond's tight waves clutching anything:a pine's resinous knot, a fist of chair foam,even a drowned and legless female."("Long Drop to Black Water")I loved this book; very easy to see why it won the National Book Critics' Circle Awards, though I have to admit I'm somewhat surprised that they received such heavy subject matter with such aplomb. This one's definitely a keeper. ****
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