Mimi Khalvati’s The Chine
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 Read More …