Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift "billowing, unattached," and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon's head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves. Ungainly piano notes pour from a window and wake unexpected wonder in a lost walker. A...
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