Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with
a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Blake uses
self-consciousness as a tool for transformation, looking so closely
at herself that she moves right through the looking glass and into
the larger world. Fear becomes palpable through the classification
of monsters and through violences made real. When the poems find
themselves in the domestic realm, something is always under threat.
The body is never safe, nor are the ghosts of the dead. But these
poems are not about cowering. By detailing the dangers we face as
humans, as Americans, and especially as women, these poems suggest
we might find a way through them. The final section of the book is
a feminist, science fiction epic poem, "The Starship," which
explores the interplay of perception and experience as it follows
the story of a woman who must constantly ask herself what she wants
as her world shifts around her.
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