Spanning four books across a six year period, Darling's selected delivers a natural cohesion, a sense of the single, complex gesture, sharply whittled from these formerly separate visions. In the opening poem, Darling writes, "when she falls in love/ physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it," posing a thesis statement for the poems' skeletal, clawing elegance. At the center of this book is a failed engagement, a sudden...
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