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Hi Mike,
I am so glad your e-mail and YUKON GOLD landed during this quiet time before the post-Labor Day frenzy begins. I got lost in your rhythmic pulsing voice for two hours. There's an energy here -- a specificity and a rare kind of grace and wisdom. I'm looking forward to going back into the book and printing out a chunk to read on the train. My only comment is that the comparison to Leaves of Grass might seem too forbidding to readers. Yes, your writing is earthy and part of this world like Whitman's, but it is also intimate and approachable and very much of our times.
I'm sure you're getting a very good response.
Lxxx
