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Fordham University Press, 82 pp., $10.
Storyteller is not a sobriquet one often hears applied to contemporary poets, but the best poets can articulate the sense and semblance of a place or event with a few deft word choices and well-placed turns of phrases. Take Scott Hightower's poem "Currency at the `Common Ground,'" a seemingly simple narrative poem that captures one brief moment in an...