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Walking Liberty - Haug, James, and Corn, Alfred
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"A character in James Haug's Walking Liberty named Mike Gray climbs to the top of a small town water tower and, after being coaxed down from it by a policeman, is asked why he did it. He says, 'I needed some altitude./I thought I could maybe see where I lived.' I'm guessing this is also what Haug wants to do in his second collection of poems. He has a Whitmanian ambition to catch America in the fact, to see it whole, as from a certain altitude. . . Haug's flair for apt and surprising visual observation leavens all these ...

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Walking Liberty 1999, Northeastern University Press, Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9781555534097

Trade paperback