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I have admired Vicki Hearne's poetry for more than a quarter-century, but am still dazzled each time I read through John Hollander's beautifully edited volume of her new and selected poems. The superb title sequence, 'Tricks of the Light,' sustains many rereadings, and is worthy of Hearne's distinguished precursor, Wallace Stevens, who would have delighted in it. Her concerns were horses, dogs, men and women, but above all what Stevens called 'the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind.' - Harold Bloom

"""I have admired Vicki Hearne's poetry for more than a quarter-century, but am still dazzled each time I read through John Hollander's beautifully edited volume of her new and selected poems. The superb title sequence, 'Tricks of the Light,' sustains many rereadings, and is worthy of Hearne's distinguished precursor, Wallace Stevens, who would have delighted in it. Her concerns were horses, dogs, men and women, but above all what Stevens called 'the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind.'"" - Harold Bloom"""

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Vicki Hearne was a poet, writer, and dog and horse trainer. She is the author of several books, including Nervous Horses and Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name. John Hollander is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and criticism, most recently of The Work of Poetry.

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