In a kind of literary trompe l'oeil, Jackie Craven's marvelous first full-length collection is ultimately about the invisible--and only sometimes benign--subterfuge beneath what appears authentic. Sassy or respectful, elegiac or terse, her poems give us a world paradoxically "dark and bright, strange, yet] familiar." Whether in the guise of investigating various particulars of creating art, or exploring the complicated emotional layers within...
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