Article: Xio's soakbook: criticism takes a bath. (Poetry Today)

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There are, but just, freestone peaches enough. A room soundproofed past Proust's specifications. In a guarded place in a guarded place, sphered safe with a kind, circumnavigating elemental grace, the books have taken the garden into themselves. The homemade waterproof library waits on white-tiled shelves all around the big tub or little pool. There are shelves with big, fresh towels too, and many toweling books: the terry Renascence, the facecloth "Pain Has But One Acquaintance," two napless "Jessie Cameron" mitts, the fingertip Border Minstrelsy, plus the Turkish towel suite of Water Street. A hefty loofah sports "Faustine" forty-one times.

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