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What Hiram Larew offers in this fifth collection is a grateful glisten of poems. Many were written as outdoor rambles during the 2020-21 pandemic; others look back over a shoulder at what seems long ago, and some are simply puddles of ponder. But above and beyond all of that, with ears that love sound and hearts that gleam, Larew’s Mud Ajar is an opening that’s not meant to end.

In the fall of 1985, five freshmen from the Cleveland area - two young men from Cleveland's Woodhill Park neighborhood and three from Warrensville Heights - began their high school experience at Hawken School, a private school on the outskirts of Cleveland in Gates Mills. In the three years that they attended, the “Juice Crew” changed the way that people looked at the school as a whole - athletically and socially.

In the wake of a murder in 1950's Puerto Rico, nationalists revolt against American colonialism. An amnesiac recluse, married to a man she does not love, Arabella finds solace in the only remaining book in her possession. One of the many banned by Puerto Rico's Gag Law. The mysterious novel entitled The Last Love Letter by one Aurelio Valentino leads Arabella on a journey with the main character in search of his lost love.