Naming the Stars : Poems

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Summary: Prize winning poetess Joyce Sutphen's latest anthology
Review: Naming The Stars is prize winning poetess Joyce Sutphen's latest anthology of her lyrical, original work and a continuing documentation of one of the best in the current generation of poets. The Problem Was: The problem was a different sense of form./He was all couplets, heroic and closed;/I always wanted to carry on, one line/into the next, never reaching an end,/or, if I did, imagining it might be/the possible beginning to a different train/of thought, which might lead to the exact opposite of what I was saying now.//The problem was we rhymed in various ways:/he liked perfection; I preferred the wise/conjunction of nearly alike, almost/a match made in heaven, both of us most/certain we knew where to take the next line./He loved his words the best, and I loved mine.