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Adam Kirsch’s is a poetry of ideas that draws as much from the Victorians and the 18th century as from the modernists. He writes in regular metrical forms, embracing the iambic rhythm Pound condemned as tyrannous, and his poetic language values clarity over gratuitous effects.

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