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Swensen’s insightfully idiosyncratic prose lyrics connect readers to their surroundings in new and surprising ways, reintroducing things and investing them with a prescient awareness and intelligence.
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One Moment: Poems
While some readers may find these poems to be opaque in their hallucinatory bravura, multiple readings work to their advantage. Adventurous audiences will readily welcome Muñoz’s expansive receptivity to the “light that only words can ignite.”
Overtakelessness: Poems
Like the poets Ilya Kaminsky and Mosab Abu Toha, Moysaenko writes of current realities with an urgency and candor that demand attention and overcome the temptation to tune out suffering that occurs far from readers’ shores.
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No
To find glimmers of hope here would be a denial, a betrayal, of Vilariño’s very identity, and while her insistently bleak aesthetic will seem depressive to some readers (“what nerve / to stay alive / to stay”), her poems are in fact passionate, with the subtle, stubborn beauty of honed granite.
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The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry
Though some readers will lament the absence of experimental or non-mainstream voices (e.g., Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, or Rae Armantrout), which reflects The Atlantic’s relatively conservative aesthetic, Hunter largely delivers on his promise to offer poems written in “vivid, memorable language.”
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Goat-Footed Gods
Assured and succinct, Driskell articulates a personal philosophy of life that, while tending toward pessimism, might still envision “the thought that everything / will be okay wrestling down / the thought that it won’t.”
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Mycocosmic
While Wheeler’s technical skill and inventiveness, particularly her ability to write what seem like two poems at once, are salient, they never upstage the urgency inherent in her subject matter: the complex interplay between the raw, lived experiences of ordinary life and the uncertain, unknowable forces--he mycelium--that generate those experiences.
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Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems
Poised at the threshold of surprise, Aaron’s poems relax into a kind of domestic surrealism that’s both insightful and humorous, yet immediately recognizable, “asking / questions no one can answer / but asking anyway.”
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Us from Nothing
The poet ably captures and illuminates the most significant moments of the complex, often tragic, past that have shaped the present. As this book moves from ancient to modern times, poetic richness gives way to the more conventional narrative, reflecting the loss of wonder and mystery inherent in the saga itself.
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