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In the Bone-Cracking Cold Julie Meltzer ''--Religious Studies Review ''The mostArtfully wrought poems tracing the intimate contours of self, nature, and history. Immersed in the rugged beauty and complex history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, M. Bartley Seigel steers his second poetry collection through the terrain of the tangible and the mythical to capture the essence of the region's mining towns and dense forests and the vastness of Lake Superior. Through a cumulation of sonnets, prose poems, and open forms, In the Bone