In Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope
Zhou, Adam
When can you tell a book of poems is really working? For me, it's when the poems provide revolutions on themes-like the tiniest clink of a kaleidoscope. Look at how Adam Zhou recognizes what stays with us, how "the landscape will remain sullen / still dressed in a sullen light" and yet the people are always leaving and returning, wounded or memory or truly breathing, even in stillness. Zhou's lyrics are a personal history unfolding before us. ...
