The third full-length collection from physician and poet Jenna Le
blends traditional form and the current moment. In Manatee Lagoon,
sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a "failed georgic"
weave in contemporary subject matter, including social-media
comment threads, Pap smears, eclipse glasses, and gun violence. A
recurring motif throughout the collection, manatees become a symbol
with meanings as wide-ranging as the book itself. Le aligns the
genial but vulnerable sea cow with mermaids, neurologists, the
month of November, harmful political speech, and even a family
photo at the titular lagoon. In these poems, Le also reflects on
the experience of being the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in
today's sometimes tense and hostile America. The morning after the
2016 election, as three women of color wait for the bus, one says,
"In this new world, we must protect each other." Manatee Lagoon is
a treasury of voices, bringing together the personal and the
persona, with poems dedicated to Kate Spade, John Ashbery, and
Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini. With this book, Le establishes
herself as a talented transcriber of the human condition-and as one
of the finest writers of formal verse today.
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