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While a few of the poems here can feel too reductive, this is classic Armantrout in the nature of its language and the depth of its thought. Poetry fans will want.
There’s an artfulness of intention behind this work, but placing these anagrammed lines beside those of Shakespeare doesn’t enhance it. Ketner may have discovered an ingenious technique, but unfortunately their method does not result in ingenious poetry.
For poems probing deep ontological and existential concerns, these are remarkably free of lecture or cant. Sophisticated readers will grab especially, but this work is accessible to all.
Of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, the award-winning Vizenor (Native Provenance) here fictionalizes his great-uncles as he constructs a powerful portrait of the Indigenous condition through innovative setting and characters.