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Article: Vagrant Grace.(Review)
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- Poetry
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- August 1, 2001
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Vagrant Grace, by David Bottoms. Copper Canyon Press. $14.00.
The word "grace" has several meanings. It refers to elegance and beauty, pleasance and charm. The word's root is Latin, via Old French: gratia, from gratus, meaning pleasing. But it has acquired another layer of significance: it refers to divine assistance, unmerited gifts, and the favor or sanctification of the Christian God. This religious usage gives the word a kind of mystery, a hiddenness, as though it described something just beyond the reach of our normal ideas or ways of speaking. We often use "grace" to point to something beyond words, an entry or influence from an unknown, mysterious source. ...
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... ... maple leaves strobing the pavement, and that unmuffled grace of costume and pomp fading in the glare of a drugstore ... Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 1995). A new collection, Vagrant Grace, will be released by Copper Canyon in the fall.
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