Poet Rodger Kamenetz’s search for God expands the spiritual vocabulary of our time, crossing the borders of faith, driven by compassion and a self-sustaining wit.
“You can feel something barbing the air, a poisonous atmosphere everywhere, / the clabbering of civility, the strange connections between click bait and road rage”
‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Also a Poet,’ writing a biography of Frank O’Hara is really a way of writing an autobiography of Calhoun’s relationship with her father.
