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Anything but the Moon.


Anything But The Moon

George Sipos

Goose Lane Editions

469 King St, Fredericton, New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada
New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada.
, Canada E3B 1E5

0864924275 $14.95 www.gooselane.com

Anything But The Moon by George Sipos is a revealing glimpse into the works of an inspired poet. Readers are sure to indulge in·dulge  
v. in·dulged, in·dulg·ing, in·dulg·es

v.tr.
1. To yield to the desires and whims of, especially to an excessive degree; humor.

2.
a.
 themselves into the pages of Anything But The Moon as the poetry's inclinations twist from notion to implication to statement. Beach Glass: At the edge of the hayfield/there is nothing left to say.//Stubble/like the tide at ebb/lingers at a line of clover clover, any plant of the genus Trifolium, leguminous hay and forage plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Most of the species are native to north temperate or subtropical regions, and all the American cultivated forms have been introduced from  the machinery/could not reach, or ignored/as superfluous su·per·flu·ous  
adj.
Being beyond what is required or sufficient.



[Middle English, from Old French superflueux, from Latin superfluus, from superfluere, to overflow :
,//blossoms of pink and white/like beach glass/ground in the wind.//The story here is only a remnant, an edge/you might follow for miles and/ get no closer to anything--/not the tangle of the grass, after-image/of the sea, or pale headland/of trees.//All afternoon/the fenceline of that loss./Those waves.
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