Title: A brilliant poet takes a misstep.
Product review: Graham's strengths as a poet--uncanny resistance to simple truth, her narratives that will not cohere--are all but ignored in this volume. Instead, we get an exasperating sameness to her work: general distress, marked by general language. Much has been made of Graham's difficulty, but this volume contradicts that. The cultural and philosphical rootlessness the poet expresses here is simple, unanchored and merely assumed. It is not at all illuminated or re-defined.
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