Visible man

Graduation date: 2009This collection of poems discusses the human body, the desires to have control over that body, and the memories contained within. In some poems, the body is overt; in others, the probing\ud spills from man into the animal world, and even poems that depict landscape often do so in bodily terms: the creek as a friend, the shorn field as an infant, notion of the American frontier\ud set into the eyes of a single train-hopper. And, although there are many bodies in these poems, it is the figures of father and son that have the strongest presence