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The Chime

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The poems in this book are edgy, funny, and
touching. Slightly abstract, like a dream is abstract...
Really smart work.

this is a brilliant book ... the attention in it is the closest thing we have to straight visionary poetry, in the strictest sense: that is, poetry that takes on as its main project the attempt to penetrate through word and image to the "other side." I found reading this book to be a hallucinatory journey; the language in it dominated my way of looking at the world for days afterward.

And not to dignify a previous review on this page, but in fact the book won one of the Alice James prizes, which aren't run or chosen by anyone having anything to do with an MFA program that this author went to. Accusations of nepotism simply don't apply in this case ... and frankly, even if the book HAD been published by a friend, why should that matter? It's a fabulous and valuable work, and we should all be grateful that it was published, and be eager to see what the author comes up with next.