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Shaw describes Hughes' new collection as showing a sensitivity both to things of this world and things of the spirit, a compassionate shrewdness, and Stephen Gibson, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, says this knockout collection is one to return to again and again-here, individual ambition and personal failure intersect with the literary and historical: as Lear misunderstands love for what it isn't, so a father fails family in not understanding self; although My Lai oc.
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