From the first sumptuous poem--featuring a protagonist who, while
running at night, thinks of her body as a nocturnal bloom--this
collection immerses readers in the compelling voice of Sarah
Corbett. The first half of this new volume is devoted to poems that
re-create scenes from a youth haunted by trouble, but redeemed by a
strong attachment to the beauties of nature, bravely eschewing
lightness and irony for a passionate and intensely physical
response to life. The latter half moves away from personal history
and focuses on in-depth and often scary narratives of other lives,
while closely identifying with survivors of trauma. In the long
poem "Testimony" she inhabits the voice of a woman at the center of
the murder investigation in which her partner was killed. Another
sequence, "Cuttings," weaves a week's worth of international press
clippings together, thereby creating an alternately horrible, sad,
funny, and odd tapestry of events.
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