“Grief Is Singular”: On Victoria Chang’s “Obit”
Carol Muske-Dukes considers “Obit” by Victoria Chang....
Carol Muske-Dukes considers “Obit” by Victoria Chang....
Carol Muske-Dukes considers “To the Wren: Collected & New Poems” by Jane Mead....
Carol Muske-Dukes tries out “Home Remedies” by Xuan Juliana Wang....
A CRITIC RECENTLY NOTED that the poems in Vanitas, Rough, by Lisa Russ Spaar, have “become more muscular, more erotic” — more (one presumes) than her earlier poems. Yet her poems have always been tight-knit and languorous at the ...