Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist Publisher: Graywolf Press, Minneapolis 2013 My rating: 5 of 5 stars   This is so beautiful, in so many ways. Szybist is a new favourite poet of mine, now that I have just finished both this book of poems and Granted, her first published collection. These are modern contemplative pieces that are well introduced by the two quotes Sybist has included at the beginning:   The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace   Repose had again incarnadined her cheeks. — Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd   How apt those quotes are,…

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