In Let X=X, poet Cleveland Wall accepts the intrusion of the external into the mindscape as a gracious host. She sits with it, yielding space, even after the "ordinary" becomes the guest who doesn't know when to leave. Her poems evoke these hours, written in the space of exasperated patience, increasingly released from courtesy. Despite any lingering lures of couth, Wall is at her best when she excuses herself for the teapot and heads out through...
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