I heard Marilyn Hacker read poems from this collection back in March at the PSA’s “Tribute to Carcanet Press and Michael Schmidt.” Khalvati’s a master of the poem sequence. Highlights of this book for me included the sequence “The Inwardness of Elephants” and her corona, or sonnet cycle “Love in an English August”–not only deft deployment of the true Elizabethan sonnet (perfect rhyme schemes–no shadow sonnets here) but true to the corona form as well, the last line of each sonnet the first line of the next, making a perfect crown of fourteen fourteen-lined poems. Brilliant.