by Niel Rosenthalis // 'Not just insight, but the strange detours consciousness must take to know itself--"I'm interested in the edge/I strive toward;" not just desire, but the strange ways it flashes in and out of time; there's no one writing quite like Rosenthalis. "Buscando ser más," said Paulo Freire, and this is poetry that demands more, from experience, the self, the poem itself. Then there's the rueful elegance: "the decade was lit from behind"; "let me capitulate, O eyeless flies..." A deep sense of responsibility to the art shines through experiment and erasure. Try Me is an extraordinary debut.' —D. Nurkse, author of A Night in Brooklyn (Knopf)
