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maggiemcmillan 's review for:
Nightingale
by Paisley Rekdal
“It was built into the equation of any body:
the waning mind, waning desire, the flicker
of a life just fading into the distance.”
these poems are absolutely stunning. Rekdal captures human transformation and feminine pain in a really raw and empathetic way. “Four Marys” was a really imaginative look at perspective and was very powerful for me. But I think “Nightengale: A Gloss” and “Gokstadt/Ganymede” are just perfect. This is a book of poems meant to read together, it simply wraps you up and pulls you into prose that is equally imaginative as it is heartbreaking.
the waning mind, waning desire, the flicker
of a life just fading into the distance.”
these poems are absolutely stunning. Rekdal captures human transformation and feminine pain in a really raw and empathetic way. “Four Marys” was a really imaginative look at perspective and was very powerful for me. But I think “Nightengale: A Gloss” and “Gokstadt/Ganymede” are just perfect. This is a book of poems meant to read together, it simply wraps you up and pulls you into prose that is equally imaginative as it is heartbreaking.