Whether the high drama of clipping a little girl's fingernails or a meditation about a fly fixed in an unopened jar of jam, the poems in The Infants at the Shoreline range over a variety of small but precious revelations.Children's fascination with new things carries the spirit of many of the poems. The literal infants at the shoreline, with their wonderment of sand and sea, personify the aesthetics of this book. The poems move from the lyrical innocence of children, bedtime storie...