The frame outperforms the poem. A preface recording that three lines waited twenty-four days for their object, finished at half past two in the morning two nights after Dolly Parton...
The better of the two drum poems, and the comparison is instructive because almost every change moves in one direction. A mallet striking the earth becomes a drift settling on...
Two excellent bookends with a soft middle between them. The sky as a forgetful poet that finally writes its last line gives the piece a genuine frame, and the opening...
More ambitious than anything else in the catalog attempts, and mostly successful. The three-part scaffold repeated six times is the engine of the poem and also its main risk: by...
A poem with a real emotional architecture underneath an argument, and the architecture is what makes it worth reading. Judgment comes first and it is unsparing, then blame shifts away...
Clean, economical, and correct about percussion. A mallet is the soft-headed striker used on timpani and marimba, so calling rain a mallet makes it a specific instrument rather than general...
Sharp, dense, and the only poem in the recent work written in anger. Click like switchblades is the detail that makes it work, since acrylic nails really do click and...
One comparison held across twenty-four lines without slipping, which is harder than it looks. Ears still ringing long after the note has stilled is the best line here, belonging to...
The most ambitious poem in the recent work and very nearly the most successful. Two labeled fractions summing to a hundred divide one man into the part that functions and...
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