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The gallery of characters in this second volume by Ana Paraschivescu brings before the reader fourteen "sand men" who remind, at least by name, of the tarot game, with its avatars circumscribed to occult symbolization. Ana Paraschivescu's poems, however, are realistic, direct and empathetic, following the lines of the figures in Spoon River described by Edgar Lee Masters. A slim and picturesque book by a mature poet. Claudio Komartin