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<p>“<em>Further than the Blood </em>contains only the briefest excerpts from <em>Cold Mine Shownman Travelling Mercies</em>. Perhaps Birchard will be persuaded to put those series back together… His vivid  offbeat casually learned and masterly language is refreshingly modest individual—unfashionable. I’m not sure there’s a poet with a better ear and I’m also unsure if another has a feeling for how intelligence moves within and between lines that is any way superior.” — David Miller</p><p>This volume brings together the complete sequences 'Cold Mine' 'Shownman' 'Travelling Mercies' together with 'Grandmother’s Middle Name Was America'.</p>