Manatee Lagoon: Poems

In her third collection, Manatee Lagoon, physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment. Sonnets, ghazals, and villanelles weave in contemporary subject matter, including social-media comments, Pap smears, and gun violence, and Le also reflects on the experience of being the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in today's sometimes tense and hostile America. With this book, Le establishes herself as a talented transcriber of the human condition-and as one of the fines...