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I’m not joshing you, I like the kid’s first book. Sure it has *young *written all over it, and there are huge failures there, but The daring! The rhythms! The searching! The knocking down of old rusty fences! The boy was drunk on words before he drank at the canon. A critic now says, *The poems* *were all right for their time. * As pink shoelaces were for desert boots back then and Pat Boone singing *Friendly Persuasion.* Many a sentence has a first draft. I dip my pen in his ink every time I write. - Andrew