Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage
Arioli, Nadia When I reached the final lines of the first poem in Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage, my mouth opened-but this was only the first of several jaw-dropping moments in Nadia Arioli's new collection. Their ekphrastic poems and lyric essays draw from paintings, the artist's biography, and a deep well of personal experience, and the results are incredibly sensory pieces, a book that feels like it might burst with grief, with love, with memories that are...