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Starred Review on August 1, 2019 | Arts & Humanities
Acclaimed poet Laird (To a Fault) writes poems in which language acts as an exercise of seeing and probing, yearning to shape reality and ideas. The poet extracts his themes by cutting across history and reality. Race, refugees, immigrants, politics, national identity, family, love, and life in the city are all tangled up through richly textured poems. There is no stylistic uniformity in this collection as the poet employs a variety of f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More