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In Slowly, As If, Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us Â- in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where  strangers seem happy / to let you be' Â- and sees it betrayed by our unreflecting complicity in poverty and violence. The death of a child who  barely scratched the air of the country' resonates in her tender, devastating account:  When a child dies, who is responsible?' Slowly, As If asks hard questions with grace and wit, balancing the particular and the universal.  Being told / you're made of stardust / is not helpful / as you sit holding a parking ticket', but it is, none the less, a truth.