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Following the loose series of Turner’s other recent 2023 publications, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, this third book in this ā€œcollectionā€ serves as a poetic guide to help us navigate the world we live in. The Dead Peasant’s Handbook begins with the difficulty and…

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I really loved this book. The emotions are raw but the images are so precise. I love Turner's use of repetition in the poems--in "The Bodies," "Horses," "Lovers." "My Mother Disappearing" reminded me of my mother. I felt like I was right there with him as I immersed myself in his poetry. His poems remind me of Pablo Neruda, especially his early poems from Residencia en La Terra, the first and second volumes, the ones translated by Merwin in particular. They have the same raw emotional energy.

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