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Milton's GodWhere I-95 meets The Pike,a ponderous thunderhead flowered stewed a minute, then flippedlike a flash card, tatterededges crinkling in, linings so darkwith excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge,the onlooker couldn t decide until the end, or even then,what was revealed and what had been hidden. Using a variety of forms and achieving a range of musical effects, Nate Klug s Anyone traces the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes natural and domestic, political and religious across America s East and Midwest. The book s title foregrounds the anonymity it seeks through several means: first, through close observation (a concrete saw, a goshawk, a bicyclist); and, second, via translation (satires from Horace and Catullus, and excerpts from Virgil s Aeneid). Uniquely among contemporary poetry volumes, Anyone demonstrates fluency in the paradoxes of a religious existence: To stand sometime / outside my faith . . . or keep waiting / to be claimed in it. Engaged with theology and the classics but never abstruse, all the while the poems remain grounded in the phenomenal, physical world of what it is to feel: / moods, half moods, / swarming, then darting loose.