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The Brink by Jacob Polley cinnamon press The thirteenth-century Tuscan poet GuidoThough still in his mid twenties Jacob Polley is already in possession of a remarkably mature talent. Formally graceful, but unself conscious, his poems come at the reader from all angles, wholly alive to the unique possibilities of their subjects the sea, the land, the home, the very brink of things. This debut collection gives us the first opportunity to see his transforming imagination in action, where a jar of honey becomes ' the sun, all flesh