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Katherine Bode-Lang''s fierce and lyrical poems undertake the reformation of family mythology, place, and loves that each life requires to become its own. As Stephen Dunn notes in his introduction, One of the classic tricks of actors is when you want to get the attention of your audience, you lower, not raise, your voice. Katherine Bode-Lang''s work is not a trick—her lowered voice kept attracting me.

Mending

I spent that summer tucked behind the library''s stacks
with broken books, repairing bends and tatters,
erasing pencil marks, tipping in the missing pages.
Old books, weak and torn books, all came to my table—

covers like rags. I undressed them further: removed
battered cloth with cuts through the spine and name,
down inside joints still holding flapping limbs to well-stitched pages.
Once undone, I would fashion a cast—red, green, black, or blue—

cut cloth and bristol board, build a new s

The Reformation American Poetry ReviewHonickman

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      Publisher: The American Poetry Review
      Publication Date: 20/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780971898196, 978-0971898196
      ISBN10: 0971898197

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Katherine Bode-Lang''s fierce and lyrical poems undertake the reformation of family mythology, place, and loves that each life requires to become its own. As Stephen Dunn notes in his introduction, One of the classic tricks of actors is when you want to get the attention of your audience, you lower, not raise, your voice. Katherine Bode-Lang''s work is not a trick—her lowered voice kept attracting me.

      Mending

      I spent that summer tucked behind the library''s stacks
      with broken books, repairing bends and tatters,
      erasing pencil marks, tipping in the missing pages.
      Old books, weak and torn books, all came to my table—

      covers like rags. I undressed them further: removed
      battered cloth with cuts through the spine and name,
      down inside joints still holding flapping limbs to well-stitched pages.
      Once undone, I would fashion a cast—red, green, black, or blue—

      cut cloth and bristol board, build a new s

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