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As If the Sky Were Open, a substantial selection
of Bob Scher's poetry, was published
in January 2009 (Browser Books).
From the back cover:

"Your poem, 'Poetry's Miraculous Workaround' is delightful. I'm happy to be in it."
                                                                                   - Richard Wilbur

"...Like the door in one of the poems, they open simultaneously inward and outward on the
immediacy and momentousness of living and loving, changing and dying, sight and insight."
                                                                                   - Albert Gelpi

Samples:

Two Levels of Theater

U Space

The Other Science

Where Are We

In the Middle of Your Day, This Is Just What You Wanted to Hear

Poetry's Miraculous Workaround

Chagall's Secret Rabbi

Why I Write

Compassion for the Purity of Secondary Phenomena

Song of a Sock

Webmaster

The Mad Scientist

What Created Who?

Beyond One's Making

Ovewhelmed by Possibilities, But up Against a Deadline

Ever