THANKSGIVING Chris Noel

Chris Noel

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"A word was made different in response to a need

and semiotic dimensions in order to sound out the latent spaces of this Thing that has soft-soaped its way into human culture

THANKSGIVING Chris NoelPoetry. Golias Books, 2020. Paperback, 96 pages. 5"x7"x1" From the press: Named for a fast food sandwich and written during rounds of chemo, Ted Reess second book is a poem comprising 498 linked haiku and sent coursing through the cemetery Of repressed anguish that is America. The haiku form, which should dilate into bowers of momentous stillness, succumbs in Rees's narrative extrusion to a torrential historicity: the poem moves at the relentless pace