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“Looking backward in “The Dress,” the speaker concludes, “How was I to know beauty / was something I could ruin / for others by trying it on?” Or in “Lucky,” which begins “I pushed him off the cliff.”
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“* Aldo Amparán, The House Has Teeth (Alice James Books) “Men instilled in me /an empty.”
“Of course, as always, I’m just speaking for me, but this month’s poetry has teeth and soul, has wound and light.”
“Soothing ache / unseen, engulfing // as the water/ we have carried.”’ Aldo Amparán Black Lake Dear Mothership Emily Skaja Heritance (Copper Canyon) Hieu Minh Nguyen Kathy Fagan Leslie Mcintosh marcus wicker Paisley Rekdal poetry reading list Staying Still The House Has Teeth The Unbecoming within-group variance Rebecca Morgan Frank Rebecca Morgan Frank's fourth collection of poems is Oh You Robot Saints!”
“The Unbecoming comes on the heels of Fagan’s William Carlos Williams award-winner, Bad Hobby, and her Kingsley Tufts’ finalist, Sycamore ; Kathy Fagan has catapulted through “mid-career” to this book’s admirable heights.”
“To say Skaja’s is one of the best book I’ve read about miscarriage doesn’t do it justice.”
“I’ve grown up/ without a body // of my own.” The traumas and vital reclamations of “Self-Portrait of the Stolen Body” come midway in Amparán’s visceral second collection and its poems full of hauntings, of trauma reflected from the opening loose crown of sonnets filled with closets and candlelit rooms and wounded and severed bodies—“You kept biting your scar to make of it a wound / the shape of a man’s throat”—through a series of “Parable” poems for “the haunted doll,” “the haunted cloak,” and “the haunted mirror.” For “Symptoms of Ghosts” responds to the theory that male “gay orientation” is due to being “possessed by female ghosts.” The speaker exorcises violent histories and theories of the past, of a time when “I asked a priest / what was wrong / with my heart.”
“Leslie McIntosh, within-group variance (Changes) Changes’ first/second book prize, launched in 2022 with Louise Gluck as the first judge, has already delivered gems such as Jimin Seo’s Ossia and Rachel Mannheimer’s Earth Room .”
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“As I read my way through the September stacks, I was struck by the feeling that we have finally reached the moment post-pandemic when the poets, collectively, are finding their way.”
“The speaker is called “Old Bag” by a man on the street and marks him like “those who touched my hair in the street, my ass in the subway, / who kicked at pigeons and taught their sons to do the same: / they’re either dead now or, older bags than I, awakened / to their cruelties and changed.” The speaker left “ until I was the only woman seated at Mother’s Day mass, / my devout, dementing dad staring forward, head / high and at an angle I recognized as ashamed, not of but for me, / or so I like to believe,” and speaker left in grief for her father: “we had a lot to say: we were wordless at the end.”
“Her poetry and prose have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books .”
“By eating the exit itself.” Paisley Rekdal, Heritance (Copper Canyon) After the ambitious hybrid project, West, Rekdal returns to the simplicity of the lyric “I” alone on the page, morphing and moving with the mind in fearless acts of investigation of difficult subjects, mining liminal spaces.”
“Virginia to you?” In “Toilet Paper Invective with Self-flagellation,” Wicker shows us what to do with the existential absurdities of trying to make meaning, make a life, make art amidst the new and longstanding failures and uncertain futures of this world.”
“Propulsive, clever, incisive, and tender, Dear Mothership dips with verve (and music) into the slog of topics tied to hitting mid-life /mid-career during the pandemic that would drag in lesser hands, such as academic careers—“Accidentally giving over our 20s / & 30s to an academic Stairmaster” and trying to buy a house—“I tease my fiancée Let’s hold out for rehabs / that scream: Welcome, desegregated household!”