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By turns autobiographical, lyrical, meditative, these closely observed, fine-tuned poems in A Dark Wood consider the impermanence in our lives and give us an appreciation of those moments when wonder prevails: ""Imagine catching such light, like painting air / or the atmosphere before it shifts..."" In the collection's title poem "" A Dark Wood, 1946,"" the speaker, recently returned from WWII, finds solace in his beloved woods: ""These deer my brothers and / sisters, the mirror of God St. Francis said."" These poems try to ""catch the light"" of transcendence, the joy and sorrow in shared human experience-childhood, family, marriage, nature, aging, and loss.

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Marianne Burke received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University. She taught at Montclair Kimberley Academy, an independent school in Montclair, NJ, for over twenty years. Previously she worked in New York City at The New Yorker magazine and Sarah Lazin Books, a literary agency. She has held writing fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Boulevard, and Passages North. She now lives in the Upper Valley of central New Hampshire.

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