My Destination by Daisy Fried Merlina Acevedo succinct examination and lucid awareness

succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human

distraction and comfort waiting within these pages

ecological and political reckoning

her poetry is also just the reality of life for her and others like her

My Destination by Daisy Fried Merlina Acevedo succinct examination and lucid awarenessPassionate, nervy (as in 'you've got a lot of'), telegraphic, indecorous, chewy, sharply observed and smart' ' August Kleinzahler My Destination, Daisy Fried's fifth book, explores renewal amid great loss ' a struggle as common as rain. As full of lived life as ever, as formally various, and as wide ranging in both subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated and indecorous, unsentimental and sharp. Fried's elbows are always out, her gaze