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Dolls' House Maker's Room by Robin Thomas Franco Cortese ' —Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe Dolls House Makers Room sits in a house of tools and memories, the tools as much metaphors as objects, the memories laden with objects and images, with the places and events that shape what we know and what we dont. A maven of gentle surprise, Robin Thomas language is supple, generous and deeply reflective; his observations sharp, quick witted and beautifully controlled. There is a signature breadth of reference in these poems travel, film, the