Like a Beggar

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Review: LIKE A BEGGAR by Ellen Bass

Like a BeggarEllen BassCopper Canyon Press, March 201470 pages$16.00 Buy: book Exquisitely wrought in language and imagery, Ellen Bass’s third collection meditates on sequencing images. Her poems open in one place and close elsewhere. She signals this with titles that point toward the firsts and lasts, such as “The Beginning of the End” and “The Morning…