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Amy Beeder's Burn the Field contains poems on a variety of themes, but behind the book rests two running themes: nature and the West in the past. We go from cattails to moths and from daguerreotypes to gunslingers.
Easy to imagine him: young & newly dead,
face black with powder, shrugging into line
behind the other men killed for cattle, land
by bad liquor, accident, some lynched.
Many of her poems are story-oriented as this one is, but others deal with personal events. Most of the poems are on the short side and are narrative, and she seems to be aiming for clarity
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