![]() 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. ![]() “And yes,” the speaker in “I Had a Mane Once” reminds readers, “I was every inch an animal.” A range of characters compose a makeshift cast-or family-fluid enough to include a hermit, a cowboy, and a dowager. ![]() ![]() ![]() Calvocoressi ( Apocalyptic Swing) resists the limitations of language-especially where gender is concerned-to more fully capture the experience of a self “unlimited in its possibilities.” (To announce the repeated manifestations of her recurring character the Bandleader, Calvocoressi uses the musical segno symbol, signifying a “confluence of genders in varying degrees, not either/or nor necessarily both in equal measure.”) 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.” Various animals populate the mountains, grasses, and trees: deer, falcons, bobcats, and foxes. ![]()
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