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					by  Stephen  Sandy 			





	
	

				Dear Editor, 

I applaud Jon Stallworthy’s assessment of Grey Gowrie [“A Change of Heart,” February 2009]. Gowrie’s work deserves to be better known, especially its masterful centerpiece, The Domino Hymn, Poems from Harefield. The wit and utter seriousness of this sequence ring a refreshing change on our lyric tradition, and a turn on that reflexive mode, elegy. It may prove as well a lasting enlargement of the genre of the occasional poem. 

		
North Bennington, Vermont
	


	

		Originally Published: April 1, 2009	


	
		
		

	
		

			
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Biography

							
Stephen Sandy studied poetry with Robert Lowell and Archibald MacLeish, earned a PhD from Harvard University, and traveled to Japan on a Fulbright Visiting Lectureship. He is the author of more than a half dozen collections of poetry and has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Council on the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. 

Stephen Sandy’s collections include Riding to . . . 

							
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