The Mended Animal

At the core of The Mended Animal is a baffling loss that cannot be forgotten or transcended.Rather, in poems that are as painful as they are precise, the radiating damage of that loss

is traced from the past into the present, from childhood into adulthood, from one place to another, with each place made "sacred and troubled" by human brokenness. Brandon Lewis is writing a poetry of great bleakness, yes, but The Mended Animal is also a work of painstakingly beautiful story, wherein each story...