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Kelly's second collection retains the metaphor-heavy character of her debut, Bestiary, but exchanges that collection's mode of zoomorphism and mythology for something more elemental. The collection reckons with dual traumas and vacillates between delicate introspection and brutal honesty. The book is impeccably structured, each subsequent section—titled "Then" and "Now"—alternating between its twinned narrative threads and building to a gale force across its con...Log In or Sign Up to Read More