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imbuing their agony with a fine and desperate dignity and allowing the reader to be swept along as well

X Matthew Holmes The Lost Coast is aDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing