If you're not deadset on reading the whole thing straight through, I'd recommend reading the last section, the poems from The Terrible Stories, first, and then beginning at the beginning to read the rest and the best of the work. I will say that I found the ending section to be the weakest-it was enjoyable, but didn't live up to the earlier work in the collection. If you enjoy poetry, I strongly recommend this collection. The poems are beautiful, unique, thoughtful, and what's more, they're accessable. Here though, there's little left to be desired. Those who really capture you with both-particularly on a regular basis within their works, I find rarely. There are some authors you go to for their language, and some for their ideas. This collection, though, is one I'll keep and return to, and there are quite a few poems I'll be copying down into a journal I keep of favorite poems. I had read Clifton before, but only poems that were dropped into larger anthologies, and while I'd enjoyed them, I was never blown away. I read quite a bit of poetry, though I rarely end up sitting down and reading a collection by a single author at once without jumping between collections, journals, etc.
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