Mouth

If it is possible to make a guitar amp for the soul, to hear what moon, river, barn, and paramour all desire of each other, Amorak Huey has done it in Mouth. Each line is electric, illuminating poems that extend their metaphors, believing to endure in language is to make love endure. Huey leverages, as all evocative poets do, the ways the body's intuition is always two steps ahead of the mind's reflexive need for order. With high fidelity to the philosopher's discursive insight, the concert...