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A selection from fifty years of Merrill Gilfillan's lyrical and vivid poetry Merrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems draws from more than a dozen volumes since his first book appeared in 1970, concluding with three short ""poetic diaries"" in the tradition of Japanese haibun. Wistful, joyful, resonant with ""Season through place, / Place in season, in place,"" the hundred various poems—landscapes, epistles, ""tunes meant for whistling""—are propelled throughout by affinity, reflection, and requital. /> />I think of you />as the tarts come out />of the oven—Ohio butternuts />from Ohio butternut />trees—and last summer's />ash seeds rattle />in the wind beyond />the window: small />bat-of-the-eye pleasures />of winter. Deep. Distilled.

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"""The strongest poems feature a solitary, omniscient observer responding to the sky and land . . . Deceptively simple, these poems reveal new beauties with each reading.""--Publishers Weekly ""These poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be.""--Tom Raworth"

""The strongest poems feature a solitary, omniscient observer responding to the sky and land . . . Deceptively simple, these poems reveal new beauties with each reading.""--Publishers Weekly ""These poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be.""--Tom Raworth

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In addition to more than a dozen books of poetry, Gilfillan has published several gatherings of short stories and wide-ranging alfresco essays.

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