Poetry. The poems in THE SLOW ART are boiled down to unflinching essentials. Golden refuses to hide behind the easy fires and maximal adornment of so much contemporary poetry, giving us a rough-edged vision that drifts out into a world of machinery, work, and family. The art here is that the poems drift inward, too--to the landscape of the self where time, language, and experience become a tangle of the brutal, the mysterious, the essential, and the...
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