I Was Not Born by Julia Cohen
Virginia Konchan reviews Julie Cohen's I Was Not Born today in Rumpus Poetry. Divided into six sections, I Was Not Born is a meditation on a subjectivized world whose missing center is what Regina Spector calls “I’m awake to feel the ache”: the ache of wondering, the ache of unrequited love, the ache of the body, as it trains itself, Orpheus-like, not to look back, not to remember, or, rather, to remember to forget, particular the event horizon of life, as Wallace Stevens says, being...
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