Mark McKain's poems are characterized by a shimmering exactitude-and yet they are also willing to admit a certain oddness of perception, a descriptive quirkiness, and an openness to serendipity that at their best recalls the work of figures such as Marianne Moore and Lorine Niedecker. These are bracing and always engaging poems, in which the act of looking gives way to wonderment. -David Wojahn Imagery, tactile and hyper-alive, soars with Mark McKain's...
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