Designated Mourner (Catherine Owen)

Reading Catherine Owen's Designated Mourner is uncomfortable and feels wrong. Elegies for a deceased spouse, Owen's poems are discomforting in the truest sense. This raw, exposed emotion is doubly impressive due to the actual polish of the poems on the craft level. Owen oscillates between simple, stark expressiveness ("We were so perfect / at the [...]

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