31 Lau, David 2017 Here There Be Monsters Bookforum New York, NY Artforum 024 03 09/2017 With electrifying tension and sustained energy, Jorie Graham’s demanding poems assemble ancient and contemporary materials. Adapting Wallace Stevens’s philosophical mode, they are poems of the act of the mind—a subject-spirit both metaphysical and resolutely disillusioned. Graham’s persona is part Antigone keeping faith in a damaged world, part transcendental apperception. Designed to take the reader into depths, her works … https://www.bookforum.com/inprint/024_03/18467