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Reviewed on August 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Winner of the 2015 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, this latest from de la O (Black Moon) offers a vividly captured Southern California. Just don't expect sun, sand, and celebrity glam; the poet's hard-knocks world instead encompasses drive-by killings, hard labor ("thirty-eight years working the same loom"), and orange trees blackened by coking factories. Splendidly incisive, de la O doesn't so much observe landscapes as create them, just as h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
