" In her latest collection, the fiercely gifted Emilia Phillips offers a breviary of film noir koans (' public cases' ) that interrogate, singly and collectively, what John Keats called the ' vale of soul-making.' Each key- or peep-hole-shaped lyric presents a riddle, a ' scene, ' in and across which a fluid cast of characters (the vagrant, a child, the citizen, the lover, the diplomat, the mannequin, the archaeologist, the parade, the neighbors),...
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