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Poetry. In Barry Schwabsky's new book [WAYS], he offers a sequence of fifteen non-sonnets meditating on difficult love. It is presented aspart of a collaboration with Korean artist Hong Seung-Hye, whose work appears not as a form of illustration but rather a deceptively simple, discreet, and elegant graphic complement to-- and extension of--the poet's words. [WAYS] is Schwabsky's first publicationsince his startling debut collection OPERA: POEMS 1981-2002, which Publishers Weekly praised as an "intensely wrought, luminously gripping book" distinguished by what Bookforum called "dazzling modulations of phrase and tone." OPERA is also available from SPD.