last book of poems in several senses: it is both her most recent, and, sadly, her final collection, as she died by her own hand in 2009.A suicide has coercive effects on survivors, and the self-extinction of a poet threatens to shape the reading of the work retroactively, to mold the feints, by-ways, and multiple impulses of an oeuvre toward a single, fatal design.
from Powells: Review-A-Day: The Joy That Snuck Up
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