Anvil and Rose 14
“I have yet to arrive / I will never arrive / in the center of everything is the poem / intact sun / inescapable night.”
Review of Rough Song by Blanca Varela
From within Varela’s rough text, Lara extracts unexpected threads of forms, unarticulated rhythms and figures of speech that keep the metaphors together and yet, by the same token, undermine and fulfill Varela’s austere treatment.