I've now had the opportunity to read carefully Richard's little book. It's terrific, running the gamut from low humor to the highly elegiac. Technically it also runs the gamut from strict iambic to the loose, loping line he learned from Frost, who must be smiling down at his assiduous student. As is the case with my own, many of the poems in Richard's chapbook were worked on here; and we should all take pride in his accomplishment.
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