News at Eleven: "The Catch", one of the most memorable pieces

in the book, is so economical that it will probably incite some to the very kind of narrative reconstruction that the poem seems designed to prove irrelevant. But meanwhile the final stanza involves a sly recusatio--the device whereby the poet states her inability to deal with a subject, while at the same time dealing with it. It is, she suggests, the very idiosyncrasy that draws her away from "theme" to "variation" that enables the poet to speak of fundamental matters. To be otherwise might involve a cost to the art which enables anything to be grasped at all. "One day I'll learn to listen/to the city beneath the snow,/the agony in the irony,/the lover as I go."

from The Guardian: The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw--review

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