Manifest and Furthermore: Poems

77 pp. William Bronk's poetry addresses how little we can trust our perceptions, how undependable reality is and sometimes how poor language is at depicting it. The poems are like strange mechanisms with many moving parts. Peer into them and you can see levers, cranks, and gears working in unison, turning and spinning. Everything locks together, but in an unfamiliar way. The poems in "Manifest and Furthermore" are intricate machines made by a eccentric mechanic. How do they work' Do they work' For most of the poems in the volume, the subject seems to live on the outside of the poem, that the poem is the node we can see, cluing us into something massive that is invisible, or just beyond apprehension. - GoodReads