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Polishing the Silver Melissa K. Welch-Ross Eveline Daub-Amend shows how thisTheres a touch of both Dickinson and Larkin in Jennifer Chrysties mature exhumation of the tales and tropes of family. Figures who could so easily flit like phantoms in her well honed poetry are palpably enjoying an after life in the poets ability to redeem through deep understanding. The collection arcs from at one extreme the parsimonies of the household to the transcending delights of the natural world. These poems undo any doubts about the poetic