In Praise of Wilderness

On the moving and provocative force of ambiguity, these new poems by shane carreon have come far from his initial crossing of threshold in travelbook (UP Press, 2013) and have come through the grappling with uncertainties in Then, Beast (UP Press, 2017). In these poems, the enduring sense of the familial, the historical, and the intimate offers ambiguity in itself—through lyric transformation—as an unsettling form of clarity where farseeing is weighted by a certain lightness of memories and futures and the disturbing tenderness of provisional deliverance.