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Foxglovewise
The UK debut of a celebrated American poet whose work is as lyrical as it is radical.
Foxglovewise is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep 'Where do stargazers go in a city of light?' Mlinko takes us from a Scottish cemetery to a mangrove in Florida via a supercell storm in Texas. Along the way, her use of form and rhyme is as light as it is enlightening as she probes our all-too-human nature and pays careful attention to the quiet marvels to be found by looking carefully at right where we happen to be.
'Mlinko is rarely less than dazzling thanks to the pleasure and rigor of her phrasing. . . layered, allusive, and intelligent poems. . . . There is a moving and unignorable sense of grief and loss beneath the surface, in an expertly managed balance with the luster of the vocabulary and music of these poems.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'Mlinko delivers again on the promise of a richly rewarding smorgasbord of sound, image, feeling, and thought.' Diego Báez, Booklist
'Image-rich [with] densely discursive textures [...] This is a big and imposing book, worldly wise but warmly open and giving.' David Wheatley, Guardian, Best Recent Poetry
Foxglovewise is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep 'Where do stargazers go in a city of light?' Mlinko takes us from a Scottish cemetery to a mangrove in Florida via a supercell storm in Texas. Along the way, her use of form and rhyme is as light as it is enlightening as she probes our all-too-human nature and pays careful attention to the quiet marvels to be found by looking carefully at right where we happen to be.
'Mlinko is rarely less than dazzling thanks to the pleasure and rigor of her phrasing. . . layered, allusive, and intelligent poems. . . . There is a moving and unignorable sense of grief and loss beneath the surface, in an expertly managed balance with the luster of the vocabulary and music of these poems.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'Mlinko delivers again on the promise of a richly rewarding smorgasbord of sound, image, feeling, and thought.' Diego Báez, Booklist
'Image-rich [with] densely discursive textures [...] This is a big and imposing book, worldly wise but warmly open and giving.' David Wheatley, Guardian, Best Recent Poetry
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2025
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Ange Mlinko
19 books22 followersAnge Mlinko is an American poet. The author of four books of poetry, she is currently an associate professor in the English department at the University of Florida. She was the poetry editor for The Nation from 2013-2016.
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July 31, 2025
Not great.. felt a little stilted and disconnected throughout. The line breaks were never really used creatively and sometimes felt like they were in strange places. Felt like poetry for the sake of poetry?
The ideas all felt a little jambled and incohesive. There was the motif of the graveyard, the birds, but looped around that were classical references that often felt odd and out of place..
The ideas all felt a little jambled and incohesive. There was the motif of the graveyard, the birds, but looped around that were classical references that often felt odd and out of place..
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May 29, 2025
absolute brainrot
December 15, 2025
Something with this just didn’t click
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