(Black Orchid) Review: Richard Grossman's The Animals

The Animals by Richard Grossman (American Letters Press) 424 pages Richard Grossman has written something way beyond a book of poetry. I can't possibly do him justice here, but I'll give it a shot. He calls this 'a pastoral,' and that term opens up the vastness of earthly possibility found in these 400 poems written in animal voices, along with 200 dialogues between the 'shepherd and the flock.' It's an 'environmental bib...

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