National Lube The Clearing with a daughter who rebels

with a daughter who rebels against the controlling word of the fathers

and transcripts rooted in historical and contemporary moments

Gedichten waarin steeds andere werkelijkheden opflitsen

an underground stream reaching the surface of the page—in lines acrobatic and limber

as characterized by the poetry of Frank O'Hara

National Lube The Clearing with a daughter who rebelsRyan Skrabalak 'Here is a generous and tender poetic, a new American pastoral full of that particular heartbreaking tenderness of closely perceived things, peopled with loves, with lusts, with public spaces, skunk cabbages and parking lots, motels, interstates, and fraught with a certain unease; what language, or place, can and cannot hold amidst the slippage and the distances. The erotic, the natural, the secular divine and the stuff of a lived life