![]() ![]() ![]() The humble, not-quite-sure-of-itself title is beautifully balanced by the supremely confident hand behind these wonderfully wide-ranging, intelligent, knowledgeable and wholly accurate poems, which hit bulls-eye after bulls-eye, perhaps precisely because of their humility, their awareness that their speaker 'might,' after all, 'be mistaken.' " I Might be Mistaken is just what a book of poems should be: unique, original, witty, charming, honest, affecting, profound. These poems turn instead to popular culture, history, and science - from biology to nuclear physics - for answers, often returning frustrated with relationships, mental illness, and the body, but with a renewed love of language and the natural world. ![]() The love lyric's confidence, whether in its speaker, its object, or its methods. I Might Be Mistaken, Poems by Barbara Duffey ![]()
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