Erin McKeown - Lenelle MoÃ¯se's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, d

Lenelle MoÃ¯se's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.

- Erin McKeown

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Perfect