Zone: Correlations 1973 2021

Usually, when a book of poetry has a date range on the cover spanning almost fifty years, I assume I am looking at a “ selected” or “ collected” poems. Let the reader not be fooled: Zone is something new. The correlations in this remarkable book take parataxis on mind-spinning trips across time, place, genre, medium, language, and author, producing strikingly emotional results. There are affecting pieces where personal and collective losses appear, touch, and wink away; there are larger can...