I have several books that I keep by my desk; these are my "working" books, books I dip into for pleasure and inspiration as I write. Freya Manfred's poetry collection Swimming With a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle is one of them. Each time I pick it up, I find something new, some new depth of vision that I had missed before that makes me sit back and wonder "How did I not see this? How could I possibly have missed it?"

What is exciting about this slim volume of poems is that each time I visi...

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