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title: "The Need to Hold Still"
type: Book
date: 2020-07-06
rating: 7
author: "Lisel Mueller"
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year: 1980
status: Finished
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A couple knock-my-on-my-ass poems that outweigh some of the second-half duds.  Mueller has a command of voice — calm, wise, and yearning — that I truly wish I had.