<p><i>Keeping Count<\/i>, M. Travis Lane’s 18th collection of poetry, begins in the poet’s favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. \u00ab\u00a0But pull a thread: music turns,\u00a0\u00bb Lane writes, and the book progressively defamiliarizes the reader, moving from ecopoetry to a longer poetry of interiority in the second section, concluding with a final section that focuses on issues of mortality. As George Elliott Clarke has written so aptly, \u00ab\u00a0If you have not read Lane before, prepare to travel: Like T.S. Eliot, she wants you to have a transporting experience in your imagination. If you have read Lane before, prepare for fresh astonishment. She is Homeric breadth and Sapphic brevity.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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