Amid the "contorted ontogenies and broken phylogenies" that threaten to undo us, the poems of A Small Pad of Paper rummage the ancient, the universal, and the contemporary in search of the wholly human. The "gnostic light that fogs the daytime passage / where nothing is clear" is no match for Steven Joyce's expansive embrasure of religion, philosophy, myth, and history in the pursuit of "a life / that breathes and sings." The integrity of these...
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