This poet pivots between the sublime thicket of the sensual and the violence of the hunt in this pinpoint navigation of family, memory, and shine. No metaphor will do."", Gabrielle Calvocoressi's Rocket Fantastic is a mythic, personal journey through an inner constellation of self-discovery- a lyrical celebration that blends animal and insect into luminous landscape and lover-laced bow ties. The voice encompasses the colloquial as well as the high lyrical: "Oak leaves so full of late summer// sun even I thought, Obscene, and stood stunned/ for a moment." When particular forms aren't up to the task of rendering something with tender and unflinching attentiveness, Calvocoressi reaches outside of poetry altogether: "Oh. These poems balance wildness and control in a fearless treatment of eros, identity, trauma, and all that resists easy categorization. "Calvocoressi resists the limitations of language-especially where gender is concerned-to more fully capture the experience of a self "unlimited in its possibilities." The setting of her third collection is woodsy, nocturnal, and by turns sinister and merciful where "it did get dark" enough to see the stars "but how bright it was." A range of characters compose a makeshift cast-or family-fluid enough to include a hermit, a cowboy, and a dowager.
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