Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit,
discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe and the stunted,
so, too, any poet tries to judiciously reject less than
sterling poems when assembling his Selected. Pastoral
Habits is a selection of carefully chosen poems from fifty
years and five volumes of poetic harvests. If "pastoral"
connotes good shepherding, or good harvesting, then
George Drew's...
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