Graft [ARC] (International Poetry)

"I honor and admire these poems for their groundwork understanding. Here, oppression is shown forth as a condition of language, a violence of syntax. And here, in resistance to oppression, extraordinariness lifts a beautiful, if harried, affirming sound. With signal integrity, the poet exploits no popular catastrophe but chooses, instead, to enter the mythic heart of catastrophe, there to make new myths." Donald Revell, citing Graft for the Poetry Society of America's 2001 George Bogin Memorial Award