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Sweet Nothings Kathleen C. Sadao 'nothing is needed but theSweet Nothings is about absences, how they tempt us, and sometimes what they make us do. An absence is a conjuration, not palpably present in longing, imagination or dream. We are lured on by absences, and how they call to us, in Thomas Hardy's memorable phrase. The poems sometimes come in sequences; always they are in dialogue with one another, responding, echoing within and between the book's two sections. At times, the leitmotifs are apparently