To Drink Boiled Snow

To Drink Boiled SnowBy Caroline Knox Description Reviews Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear. Each poem operates with an elastic sense of what can be mentioned, as

ars poetica

of loss and isolation

Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi’s DAAD Artists residency in Berlin

Richard Meier’s Terrain Vague chooses a remarkably different path

built from the rubble and strangeness of everyday life

A microcosmic muse in a bubble of tropical noise

Laynie Browne’s latest poetry collection

Keeping / the window open is a treasure trove

I’m sure you will succeed / in your endeavors

and paradoxical histories

Craig has constructed a moving

the sentence becomes a drawing