With lushness and a perplexity reminiscent of Wallace Stevens, the poems of Michael Robins' second collection blend allusion--from late-20th century rock lyrics to the Gettysburg Address--and negotiate feeling amid a troubled history of the United States. These persistent, cunning voices claim prey and hunter alike: whether a tortured prisoner or the nation's first colonists who might coexist among the indigenous populations if their "arms could hold...
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