Alarie Tennille listens to the things of this world, hungry to transform them into a language and tone that will linger long in a reader's mind. By turns amused, fascinated, repulsed, and deeply moved, she explores the vagaries and brilliances and sorrows of her surroundings and reports back. With the eye of a painter-indeed, many of the poems are informed by paintings-Tennille notes that "every green is its own green,/sometimes not green at all."...
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