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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