“Five Poets Explore the Intersection of Self and Other”

Try Never + four other books, reviewed by Stephanie Burt, New York Times, 3 November 2017.

 

Teaser quote: For all its semantic leaps, and its swaths of confusion—exacerbated by inter-poem echoes and compound words from German and Sanskrit—the kaleidoscope of scenes, quotations and exclamations let me imagine a poet behind the poems, a restless skeptic, aggressive talker and armchair traveler, “one of those who have a delight in / Renouncing whatever they chose.”

 

[originally posted Friday 3 November 2017]