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Finding the Words, Dan Maguire's second collection of poetry, is suffused with atmosphere- hazy summer, smokey dusk, traffic-lit night. The poems, full of vivid imagery, evoke emotion, time, scents, and most importantly sound. Moments in time without language Maguire describes, somehow finding the words. Dan Maguire's poetry has won prizes and awards and has appeared in numerous anthologies and reviews. He has twice received first prize for poetry at the Philadelphia Writer's Conference and been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. Poets Robert Bly and Gerald Stern have favorably reviewed his work. from Locust Days Late August, 1958 The sun, decades away from an asphalt world, shaves the slate brittle, steams the concrete cracked. Phone-wire shadows slice high noon in alley-ways. The day hovers like exhaust while heat shakes its shimmered fist. The last few precious days of August- fifth grade, its claws full grown, already stirs in wakeful sleep- and no one else around to help fill up a final cup of sweat- Joey on vacation, Billy being punished, Tommy, just not home. The bully sky, squinting and deserted, pushes numbly through the boiled streets.