"slow-release revelations"

Dora Malech reviews Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie as part of On the Seawall's annual fall feature, Twenty Poets Recommend New & Recent Titles: "[T]hough this is not a book that fetishizes poverty or decay," Malech writes, "it constantly asks us to reexamine the imperfect and the transient":

Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie reads like an elegiac mosaic. Refusing to culminate in solace, the terminus of a classical elegy’s arc, this collection “is context / not event,” as it accretes moment upon moment of mourning and consolation, taking the reader not to a tourist destination, but inside a life lived and a place observed. We inhabit the “absentminded particulars of ruin” in this post-industrial American city, paradoxically universal in its specificity.