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Review "Memory and repetition drive Lex Runciman’s moral investigations of a world--our world." -- Andrew HudginsLike music from an open window, these poems draw me into life. This poet's truth sings of the universal language. -- Kathleen Dean Moore, pre-publication reviewRunciman gives himself to the domestic world---of the household, backyard, neighborhood street---a world of delicious and familar beauty. -- Sherod Santos, pre-publication review Product Description Poetry. Author of two previous collections---including The Admirations, winner of the Oregon Book Award---Lex Runciman's poetry has appeared in New England Review, The Southern Review, Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and Hubbub. He is professor of English at Linfield College and a 2006 Pushcart Nominee, as well as a 2006 finalist for the Ekphrasis Prize. Kathleen Dean Moore says that his poems are "like music from an open window," and they "draw me into his life. So how is it that his childhood memories--the light at night, the wishing for water--can be so like my own? How can he love his daughters just as I love mine? And the sea, exactly as it is? This poet's truth, so perfect, so ringing clear, sings of the universal longing." From the Publisher Lex Runciman's poetry has earned many honors: twice finalist for the Ekphrasis Prize, Pushcart Nominee, and Oregon Book Award winner. This is his third collection of poetry. About the Author Lex Runciman taught for eleven years at Oregon State University and is now Professor of English at Linfield College. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Santa Rosa, California, 1959. Sunshine as advertised, sunshine in a Pantone sky over a chlorine-blue pool, over divers briefly airborne, over swimmers and bathers lounging with cigars, over a boy in a canvas chair. Five days earlier, sometime in the dark, the endless intensity of his ache stopped. It woke him and he turned on a light. His room was his ro