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We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound
Source: Poetry (June 2006).
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This poem originally appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry magazine
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Biography
Poet Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and was educated at St. Olaf College and the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he received an MFA. Boss’s pared-down, idea-driven poems are propelled by internal rhyme and balance clarity with a nuanced attention to sound. “I think of poems as pieces of music, or a work of architecture,” he told the Utne Reader in 2009. “The poem is a space that you’re inviting someone . . .
Poems by Todd Boss
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Living, Activities
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Couplet, Metaphor, Rhymed Stanza
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