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Dear Editor: Poems (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)

by Amy Newman

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Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.… (more)
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Every poem is in the form of an envelope that employs a salutation and closing familiar to every poet. In the envelope is an impassioned letter, not pure or open, but with a boldness that changes the letter into an epistle and subdues its conceptual cleverness. Every poet has written the form letter as repetitively as they concatenate through the three seasons this book moves. There doesn't seem to be a definitive reason for the division into seasons, much like the motive for the divulged details remains undefined; but there is much in the book about a wanting to capture something that cannot be captured. Detail crumbs are dropped at the perfect pace to keep piquing interest, and the book ends just as the conversation you had with that stranger traveller you crossed with for a night does. ( )
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Is this, sir, what you asked me to tell you? — Emily Dickinson
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Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.

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