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Title: Poem as Phoenix
Review: How often does Keats get dragged out to do the bidding of some review--and yet it is difficult to imagine many books that would get closer to his advice to "load every rift with ore" than Simone Muench's Lampblack and Ash.It isn't enough to say that Muench hears the music of the line, without acknowledging how she sees the visual music inside each word and the strumming of letter to letter. Her poems are at once, spare and ornate, rich and stark. These poems are muscular, gorgeous and perfectly composed.
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