“If you are interested in poetry that both floats and stings, that teases at the felicities of language while insistently questioning its own authority, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes will reward with each new reading. At their most compelling, the poems in the collection are, as John Ashbery has remarked of Brice Marden’s paintings, not ‘like so much of today’s art, allusions or comments, however oblique, on ideas that are elsewhere: they are themselves what is happening.’ And here, what is happening is well worth paying attention to.”
I am completely in awe of this incredibly generous and attentive review of In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes (Publication Studio, 2013) that Derek Pollard wrote for Drunken Boat. Its intelligence is as telescoped and wildly expansive as its company is immediate; it reminds me to company.
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