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To the poet's quest for immortal vision, A Hellsmouth for Orpheus offers the longing of human desire. Raw but discreet, deliberately sensual, evoking an elusive authority, this book-length poem turns to the love of song to rescue life from annihilation by the commonplace. As Appelbaum writes:

nature is observed
when eros
       disturbs the breath
in heights
       with questions
              in the mirror