One Throne – poems – Rae Hoffman Jager
One Throne
poems by Rae Hoffman Jager
Five Oaks Press, 2017
Because it isn’t uncommon to mistake
an inkling for an omen.– {from} One Answer, and Making the Best of It
Rae Hoffman Jager, in her book One Throne, employs a lyric of transformative repetition. Answer knows nothing but its double and humor enters the ache trade armed with loneliness. After reading, I felt I’d eaten the doll out of house and home and that perhaps absence could indeed make heads or tails of being upside down. Which is to say I felt optimistically worried and deeply momentary. Jager is a priestess of distraction, and distraction, here, is the key to being present.
so think of this instead, dear—-
The ocean is so violent. – {from} First Loss
These are poems populated with cameo and propped up with a singular crookedness. Poems in which a young person, made anxious…
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