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Photographs by
Ken Robbins.
Beach glass, baseball cards, coins, comic books, medals, model trains: thirty brief rhyming poems describe collectible objects. Artistically composed photographs capture the lure of many of the poems' treasures. Not all of the works are illustrated, unfortunately, and the absence is noticeable when those words are floating in the middle of white space on the page.