NONFICTION

Ambivalence and Other Conundrums

by Craig Morgan Teicher

Omnidawn. 2014. 48p. ISBN 9781890650773. pap. $11.95. POETRY

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Colorado Prize winner Teicher explores elemental issues ("Fear," "Sex," "Art") in deceptively conversational prose poems that prove surprisingly wise. Remarkably, he can take a simple act like breathing and unpack meaning without pretension ("the expulsion of the old to make room for the new") and wax witty (pigeons "coo like horny machines") and plaintive ("digging a tunnel back to childhood with a spoon") in the same sentence. A delight. [See Prepub Alert, 11/18/13.]—BH

Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Apr 15, 2014

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