Once More with Feeling

by Tina Cane

Just as her "earliest hands dug for light in wet sand," Tina Cane's lyric reveries uncover the treasured details of a youth steeped in New York's once-marginalized neighborhoods. Note the tensions in her "minor histories," for example, the self-deprecating resolve that asserts the nobility of cultural experiences we recognize as our own even in the exactness of Cane's personal vision. Once More with Feeling is a mesmerizing debut come to dignify our most worldly passions.
-- Gregory Pardlo

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017