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Title: Get to know Orlowsky.
Review: Dzvinia Orlowsky, Edge of House (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)With every book of Dzvinia Orlowsky's I read, I become more enamored of her work. She has an eye for detail matched by few, and an excellent grasp of how to weave that detail into the proper atmosphere for a poem:"...with one breath.Outside, a horse kicks her metal pail.Someone calls a wrong number.My sister waves good-byeat the front door.I'm draped in a white sheet.Two young men are carefulnot to tilt the stretcher too fardown the front steps."(--'Before Dawn I Leave")A few of the book's poems stumble on their own feet, but the vast majority of its work it pitch-perfect. Dzivinia Orlowsky is a name you should know. ****
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