Motion Flesh

What poetry deserves this time? What time deserves this poetry? This is a poetry that takes in, talks back, bites down at the questionable, the unintelligible, the intolerable. Hard hitting speech, rhythmically measured and aurally gifted, its words on occasion break apart, elide a letter or two. Eric Acosta elects consonance over assonance to say what. Say what? This is a poetry fully alive to coming alive. It registers confusion, ferocity and tenderness. "Of me, of you haunts the page." "...