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Robert Farnsworth has sought to write poems that "simultaneously think and sing." His poems are meditative and musical with measured pace. The landscape of northern New England, "the Atlantic's edge, " is central to the vision of this book. It becomes a living phenomenon with human qualities: "honest water", "strong water", a landscape that has "diminished and forgiven him." He writes sometimes in melancholy about human affairs: "a common durable sadness, " "a language of loss, of everything unassuaged, " "a thousand discouragements, " "the underwater light/that comes before a storm." And often of quiet memory, "imagination's tender lens, " and of anticipation, "the love your empty dress is promising." Honest Water is a book of steadily evolving power. "Farnsworth's formidable descriptive powers alone would recommend his poems to us but it's what he builds from observation-a vision, as we like to say-that distinguishes this extraordinary book"-- William Matthews "Farnsworth has the ability to come to experience immediately as a first cause-with potential for both argument and narrative-and to create resonance without sacrificing the rational. It's a rare poet who can think through the emotion of an experience and allow that process a full hearing, in a language of wit and discovery. I can't think of another young poet so capable, at once, of conviction and irony and sustained interest in the imagination." --Stanley Plumly