A review of Love-In-Idleness that has me swooning

I'm really touched by this extremely searching and thoughtful and extensive review! Thanks so much, Erik Schuckers.

He ends the review by writing: "Hennessy is fully capable of springing surprises, too, as in the wonderful "Waiting Room," in which the glimpse of a woman's exposed ankle in close proximity to the "anticipation / of the doctor's press on my bare chest" prompts both an erection and a reflection: "I know there are dips in the human skin, / hollowed out like open mouths, places / meant to be found in the dark, fumbling / to fill or to excavate."

There's a persuasive affinity at work in "Waiting Room," as there is in perhaps the finest poem of this section, "Blood in the Cum," in which a love poem is figured as a "way to sew / our two mouths shut / with a kiss so thin it's invisible." Not a word feels out of place here: confident, concise, the poem moves with a grace and restraint that feel inevitable. It is, to a reader, a remarkable achievement, and to a poet, a goad and an inspiration and a gift all at once, and it leaves me eager to envy more and more of Christopher Hennessy's work."

Thank you!