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Nomina

Nomina, by Karen Volkman. BOA Editions. $21.00 cloth; $16.00 paper.

Nomen: the middle, and so inmost, name, as in Gaius Julius Caesar. Volkman's imperative in these poems is uttering nomina without, if possible, reference to humdrum names; she writes in deprivation of particulars, in an effort to talk about certain conditions and the nature of them - mourning, wandering, misfortune-with a purity unavailable to a dramatic or representational approach. As she puts it in Spar (2002), "I am asking the most edgeless questions, so words will keep them, so the green gods in my mind will lull and lie." The project is Symbolist, with the "opacities," "limpidities," and "polarities" of Symbolist ...

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