Boys grow up as free-wandering as neighborhood dogs. Adults live at the edge of lives grim as spit in gin. Dreams skate past as elusively as skittish blackbirds. These images amaze and meander ...
Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...