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Brother Poem
Written by Stephanie Burt, originally published in New York Times
Mar 07, 2023
Brother Poem
Written by Stephanie Burt, originally published in New York Times
Mar 07, 2023
Karisma Price’s debut is rich with aphorism and rhetoric; Will Harris’s second book is a meditation on family; Gabrielle Bates’s debut borrows from fairy tales; and Ellen Bryant Voigt’s collected poems sum up a career, and a life.
Will Harris brings to BROTHER POEM (Wesleyan, 90 pp., paperback, $15.95) a mercurial intellect, a seriousness about life and death and family, a deft way with sinuous sentences and an unusual international background. His ethnically Chinese Indonesian family, fleeing dangerous prejudice in Indonesia, traveled in China and settled in England, where the self-questioning habits of other young British poets came to inform Harris’s inviting stanzas and speculative prose poems.
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