A 28 page pamphlet. I liked "January 20th, 1986". I didn't like "This poem explains" or "The watchers". The rest were somewhere between those extremes. He's quite partial to interruptions - of register (p.16) or a new voice or a "THWACK!" (p.31), or parentheses. I like how these shape the poems. I'm less sure about some of the language. In "Susannah" the persona wonders why a girl's face is so pale, and thinks "maybe the white is because/ her black of hair, black of eyes, invents/ white skin?". Well maybe, but it's a needlessly contorted way of saying so.
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