Phantom Pains of Madness

Phantom Pains of MadnessBy Noelle Kocot Description Reviews Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There's a cult following for her unique imagination, self professed in a poem as filled with pulchritude and peopleness, and her seventh collection does not disappoint. Kocot follows Soul in Space with a collection that should

” intellectualism

and domestic landscapes with gentle agility

But make no mistake

Nutter’s new volume ends up at once whimsical and tragic

precise and transcendent

he ends on images simultaneously cryptic and perfectly fitting

she says only what matters

In allowing us any detail

to forge a writing that comes across simultaneously as effortless & utterly gorgeous

unquestioned verities or lazy thinking in general

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