People I Can't or Won't Have Another Conversation With

The People in the title of Alexander Thorne's new book are both living and dead, but this also refers to the fact that we all carry fragments of the living and dead within ourselves. "In the center, transcendent, are old ghosts," so begins People I Can't or Won't Have Another Conversation With. "They look at me from across the room./ They're like stars—when you look at them/they are hard to see but when they enter/your peripheral vision—there they are."

Thorne's poems explore the bridges bet...