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Publication Type:
Journal ArticleSource:
Publisher's Weekly (2020)URL:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-303670-3Full Text:
Graham (Fast) begins her fifth
decade of publishing with a bravura performance that probes the present
for what the future will bring. In four sections of long-lined poems,
many of which run two-to-four pages in length, moments that are seen,
felt, and processed dazzle the reader. Graham sets the stage in the
first line of the opening poem: “After the rain stops you can hear the
rained-on.” The poem’s final image is both artificial and natural:
“nothing to touch/ where the blinding white thins as the flash moves
off/ what had been just the wide-flung yellow poppy.” Other poems
include texting abbreviations (“u” and “yr”), and by the end, the
reader’s world feels virtual. The second to last poem, “In the Nest,”
has the speaker saying goodbye to “Mother”: “I tap/ again only to see
your/ face erase itself//...An arrow points/ as I descend again/ into
your room/ from the sensor// in your ceiling// watching u./ We think
this is/ the past.” The book ends with a plea from the Earth to “Re-/
member me.” Through her signature urgent questioning, Graham makes plain
the psychic and physical cost to humans of wrecking the Earth. (Sept.)
STARRED REVIEW
Reviewed on : 09/16/2020
Release date: 09/01/2020
Genre: Poetry
Release date: 09/01/2020
Genre: Poetry
Ebook - 96 pages - 978-0-06-303672-7