New review of Fossils is up at Ecotheo:
the poems function at the height of their powers in a space where direct visceral experience of the page bypasses the barriers of rational exegesis. For all their intellectual demands, ultimately these poems ask you to interact with them deeply as physical, tangible things, as real as a stone trilobite in your hand.
–Dina Strasser
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Thanks to Tova Fleming for sitting down and talking about my poetry book and scholarly work! You can read more about our conversation here.
Madeleine Wattenberg, Assistant Editor of the Cincinnati Review has written a thoughtful and compelling review of Fossils in the Making. Here is just one of the many insights she has into the book:
The final poem, fittingly named “echo / o” turns on its internal sounds; “o” is, after all, the symbol for Oxygen, the gyre’s center, the mark of invocation. The invocation is to anyone—or anything—that is listening. Bagdanov encourages us to make our attempts but also recognize that these attempts are folded within other bodies, that we both carry and are carried by the gyre’s currents. And if our making is an undoing, then perhaps our undoing will be our making too.
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