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This is meticulous and painstaking ― sometimes pain-making work ― making the words fit the columns

we arc through controlled fury

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deals with difficult subjects but with such spirit and seeming insouciance that the reader

took poetry to a new beginning

If the Mute Timer by Tom Docherty cinnamon press This is meticulous and painstakingTom Dochertys first collection, If the Mute Timber, begins not with a book nor even an attentive ear, but with the elusive fragment of its title. The poems situate themselves in medias res: among birds or gravestones, between lines of prayer, in the flux of appearances. Places without words become focal points: the poems seek articulation in life before birth and after death; in animal and imagined lives; in works of music, painting, and architecture;