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“Death Canoe” Poetry Review: Grief Is a Vessel Carried Away by a Current

The innovative and deeply vulnerable Maggie Nelson explores the transformational nature of inescapable grief.

Grief flows from Maggie Nelson in sensuous prose meshed up with time passing in blood. Take the first lines of “Death Canoe”:  “Surprised by blood passing, a large clot for morning, surprised later on in the day by the ice … Continue reading

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