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Charles Wright. Farrar Straus Giroux, $8.95 (112pp) ISBN 978-0-374-52112-7

``Wright's landscape-centered meditations in verse are laced with dark irony,'' stated PW , commenting that in ``inventive, solipsistic odes'' the author ``fathoms the ceaseless change at the heart of our lives, why we leave what we love best, the intractability of human desire.'' (Jan.)

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