In This May Sound Familiar, the fifth poetry collection by Michael Favala Goldman, winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Festival Award in Poetry, the poet reminds us of the joy of uselessness, how recognizing our powerlessness to create utopia may be the first step toward stopping self-sabotage. In "Crying in Unison," Goldman writes, "We have to be soggy and damp/ with ruined hair-dos and sloppy shoes...so we can't go home the same." With...