Soft Passer

by Shane Anderson

Soft Passer pulses with an alluring dissonance, as the formal uniformity of its 30 poems is countered by their unrelenting semantic disjunction. Each line encapsulates a momentary state of mind or observation contiguous with the next but with which it does not communicate. Mosaic-like, the poems “have a lot to do with dissociation,” their author notes, “but also the desire for its opposite – or opposites; connections and zen-like moments of clarity.”

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First published January 1, 2015