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author of Creatures of Will and Temper

The manuscript is structured around a series of "visitations"—imagined encounters with the poet's mother after her death

Dancing with Columbus: poems Book cover type:Paperback it shares itself with gravidDancing with Columbus gathers together fifty two beautifully crafted new poems by award winning Minnesota poet, translator, and editor Robert Hedin. Employing spare, imagistic language, Hedin explores the themes of loss and reclamation, the integrity of everyday events, and our proper place in the natural world, with its seasonal turnings and yearly migrations. In one poem, an elderly man, newly retired, gains a new perspective on life watching