Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

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Summary: Harrowing book
Review: This is a harrowing book about the death of two children. I really liked this book and recommend it highly to anyone who likes more emotionally based poetry and more lyrical poetry. Sometimes the diction was a little simple for me, but overall this was a really good book.

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Summary: Took the top of my head off
Review: This is simply one of the most beautiful books of poetry I've read in a very long time. Its subject matter, the death of two young girls in a plane crash, would render almost anyone mute, yet Barnett has found a way to speak of the ineffable here, and to make something beautiful out of despair. The style is appropriately, exquisitely restrained, and yet there is a poignancy in the deep silences of these poems. Do yourself a favor: buy this book, and when it arrives quit bitching about your problems, turn off the tv, close the paper, and let these elegies remind you of what matters in this life.