The language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, A Little Middle of the Night, is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one epigraph from Emerson, these poems capture "the Exact and the Vast" of consciousness in intense lyric verse with an angular and almost scientific sensitivity. Here is a speaker intent on discovery:...
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