Troubler

"In Elijah Burrell's second collection of poems, the past and present echo off each other in visions occasioned by the visitations of the shape-shifting form of the titular Troubler. As Troubler 'gives notice, ' the poems themselves provide the reader with a different kind of noticing-attention to the specificities of both image and vernacular, sustained looking and satisfying turns of phrase. Infused with music and memory, Troubler complicates our assumptions about coming of age, rendering...