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The First Flag

by Sarah Fox

Coffee House, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2013. 180p. ISBN 9781566893268. pap. $15.95.

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An LJ "poet to watch," Fox (Because Why) returns in a pastiche of form, intelligence, experience, and imagination with verse and essays of experimental design. "Dear Mama,/ The animal inside me is a cat/ with eyes like the big yellow moon/ and claws like the stars/ in the sky and fur like the dark/ sea and that is the animal inside me." Fox has a gift for grit, and she's not afraid to use it.—AP

Reviewed by Annalisa Pesek , Apr 15, 2013

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