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Wonder, outrage, grief, resignation, joy: From the fleeting perfection of a flowering almond to the incomprehensible carnage of the war in Gaza, these poems capture and distill every shade of human feeling. In this generous collection, Common Wealth Award winner Samuel Hazo has chosen the poems he thinks are his best from an extraordinarily productive decade, and then added a good number that have never been seen anywhere before. They put you in a comfortable chair for a good conversation with a master of the language, whose art lies in making you forget that there is any art in them at all.