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These are beautiful, awe-inspiring, tender, something entirely new. Read these if you have the courage. They will lift your heart, comfort your heart, and push your heart off a cliff. Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean. ""Man proposes but God disposes"", my mother used to say, laughing grimly when things collapsed. I think she'd have liked the way Keith Tuma sharpens up his prose here, to observe the objects and events of the world with dry laconic humour, but is then forced himself to endure that hard scrutiny as calamity strikes to the heart. Trevor Joyce, author of What's in Store. Catastrophe slowly unfolds across Studies in the Unnatural World. Tuma's poetic prose registers the shock, but its wondering deadpan somehow also manages to keep in sight what matters most. Fergal Gaynor, author of Clio's Ground: New and Selected Poems. A compelling and moving and remarkably witty elegy without a hint of sentimentality, Studies in the Unnatural World maintains its delicate tonal control throughout, despite the intimacy and sorrow of its material. Prose poetry is difficult to achieve, but these are poems in the fullest sense because poems gather together different strands and facets of our languages and spheres of experience and knowledge in constellations, and that's what the various ""ologies"" that make up these Studies manage to do without any feeling either of forcing or of excess. A vital book. David Lloyd, author of The Harm Fields.

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