Gaze Back
poems, Marylyn Tan
University of Georgia Press, 2018
In Gaze Back, poet Marylyn Tan is a vandal of ache and etch whose verse erases plainness, whose voice knows to radio itself, whose vision evicts and eventually encodes. Ah the automated shrug of a shoulder, ah this constant state of notification. Tan’s is a prayerful anger of dismantling and differentiating, one that reimagines the student of injury into a wounded anti-weakness that tenderizes evasion might the promise of invisible scrutiny trick the microscope into seeing. Somewhere between documentary and dream, the body has its fun with pain and its cake with god. The whole work is a safe word sounding its de-worship of password. In the reading, I wanted to be resurrected, but was found alive. Wanted to look back, but the future of Gaze Back mattered. Matters.
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reflection by Barton Smock
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