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These themes include the unflinching encounter with time, suffering, and mortality, as well as what one earlier reviewer called \"a quest for transcendence, a search for the sacred.\" They seek, in short, to do, as another reviewer observed, what Yeats said was \"one ideal for poetry: to hold justice and reality in a single thought.\" In so doing, Tobin's poems probe the individual life in relation to the pressures of history, including his own family's perilous and traumatic immigration from famine in the 19th century--a backstory he explores in \u003ci\u003eThe Narrows\u003c\/i\u003e, which he has called \"a mural in verse.\" At the same time, his \"Homage to Bartolomeo de las Casas\" delves into the fraught early colonial history of the Americas through the eyes of the eponymous friar, a repentant colonizer. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese earlier works establish Tobin's mastery of the poetic sequence, among a wide variety of other formal displays, all amply evident in the books that follow, including the lyrically meditative orchestrations of \u003ci\u003eSecond Things\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning poems of \u003ci\u003eBelated Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Net\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Labors\u003c\/i\u003e, characterized at once by their compendious erudition, their sense of intellectual and cultural history, as well as their emotional urgency and formal variousness. This generous selection from Tobin's work is intended to be a companion volume to \u003ci\u003eThe Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e, his trilogy of book-length poems that explore twentieth century history, and the counter claims of science and religion, through three exemplary lives, which reviewers said inspired genuine awe. Finally,  \u003ci\u003eDusk, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e leads with a gripping selection of new work that engages the enormous pressures and troubles of the present historical moment, set in dialogue with Tobin's characteristic passion for what would transcend it. 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