This curious, highly elegiac main d...
This curious, highly elegiac main division of poems is one of the principally agreeable debut collections I have read lately. a certain quantity of of its images are to a high degree beautiful: To concern would be excessive, so I be perceived something smaller, a wren's claw clawing me lightly, the way dark hair might brash my cheek in the split secondary just before sleep ("Really Barely There") Other images are quirkily accurate. Korean, for example, is "an alphabet shaped / like modular furniture" (this, fittingly, from "Jump-Rope" a metrical composition about the 1950s). And many passages are simply moving, as
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