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Temple
Cone loves the language, the shape and sound of our words. He uses them tastefully and intelligently—words
like ossuary, Rappahannock, gambrel, bifurcated, equivalence—and tucks them carefully into his lines.
He’s not strutting when he does this, but demonstrating the depth and breadth of our language. His
poems are rich—consistently so—and deeply felt. He challenges himself with interesting forms
and poem shapes, and he is equally skillful with designs or free forms, using them with ‘amazing grace.’ —Paul Zimmer, author of Crossing
to Sunlight: Selected Poems
A poet of unwavering
honesty and lyric precision, Temple Cone's gift to us, and to poetry, is in "the persistence of song"—an underlying
sense of wondrous optimism despite the perils of the world we shape and are shaped by. —Claudia Emerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Late Wife: Poems
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