All of us, from bumpkins to artists, are always picking up and carrying on. Intimacies, skepticism, transformation, scars: these are things that also happen to be common to, and woven into, the fabric of lyric poems. In Natalia Prusinska's Hard Jolts of Hope, we encounter a poet whose preoccupations take us to a place where Emerson's remark that the mission of American poetry is to show us the power of surprise comes to mind. Here the "jolt" of the...
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