
Catching Up with Reviews of The Weather in Normal in Poetry Review and The North
At last, on leave from the university for a few weeks, I'm catching up, and it's such a pleasure to revisit these appreciative reviews of The Weather in Normal. In Poetry Review, James Byrne reviewed TWiN alongside Forrest Gander's brilliant Be With (Norton, 2018), beginning, "Intimacy in lyric poetry requires the conjuring of absence." Byrne continues, "Both poets deploy a deeper lyric communion with the notion of absence itself; sometimes the dead speak back, are not merely