Paul Deaton's eagerly awaited debut poetry collection,A Watchful Astronomy, collects many of the pieces that have appeared in magazines and in an early pamphlet,Black Knight (Eyewear). This father arises in various guises: as a vast unfathomable mountain 'Inselberg Father', as an approaching thunderstorm, as a mood: 'he mauled us with his gloom'.
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