as in Miles Davis smooth--poems [by Kit Robinson], coincidences, accidents, and chance encounters constitute the "before and after" of ordinary life, what is stitched by language into narrative, history, and memory. For example, in "November Ease," the narrator stumbles upon, for the first time, a piece of concrete "buried in the yard behind the house/[he's] inhabited for the past ten/or eleven years."from Powells: Review-A-Day: Poems of Will and Constraint
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