A poetics of intervention, interruption, and subtle insinuations of voice which intrude in the form of enclosed parenthetical asides and French shifts. The effect is magnificent: "to speak of returning before/ (think) objects--several/ intervals or (less)/ the knowledge of her possessions." Ratcliffe's collisions of public and private literacies create a tension between the voice and the voiced. --Susan Smith Nash
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
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