William Benton's "Birds"

In the summer, I read poetry (or try to ... one poem a day). The moment I laid my hands on Birds in the Marfa Book Company, I knew it was mine. It is a handheld gem that will inspire me to be more clever with my typewriter, force me to focus on the form of the word, and remember everything I learned in graduate school about placing text on a page.

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