Here is the cover of Michael Klein’s new book of poems. One poem in the book begins “The body is everywhere,” which struck reviewer Matthew Lippman particularly:
After I read that first line, I closed the book. It was enough: “The body is everywhere.” I had no idea what the poem was about but it didn’t matter because it felt whole: the body is everywhere. I closed the book.
Read the rest of Matthew Lippman’s review of The Talking Day at the LA Review of Books.
How lines work.