Lachlan Mackinnon's third collection opens with a characteristically exact account of something ungraspable: a distant episode in cosmology. This is the starting point for a series of investigations into the uncertainty and flux, in which poem after poem brings home its cargo in precisely shaped but oblique and surprising ways. The collection is as various in its concerns as it is unified in its search for the close naming of things. One of the paradoxes of these poems is to start from spareness and reserve, and to end by ...
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Lachlan Mackinnon's third collection opens with a characteristically exact account of something ungraspable: a distant episode in cosmology. This is the starting point for a series of investigations into the uncertainty and flux, in which poem after poem brings home its cargo in precisely shaped but oblique and surprising ways. The collection is as various in its concerns as it is unified in its search for the close naming of things. One of the paradoxes of these poems is to start from spareness and reserve, and to end by establishing an intensely personal voice, whatever the subject almost casually to hand - American scences, foreign places, the remembered present of the 1960s, the lives within paintings, and the potentiality of prime numbers.
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