Where We Think It Should Go

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Author: Claire Becker Publisher: Octopus Books (2010) "Poems should go to where we think, which means that they often end up in the loneliest, most impossible places. (California'l l do, but there are others.) Once, when I was a little kid, I burned my hand with our car's cigarette lighter while my mom was busy paying for the gas she'd just pumped. I remember the meaty stench, the little crop circle in my palm, but mostly I remember wanting badly to know a thing, a thing that sped off as quickly as it came, maybe quicker. Claire Becker's poems seem both driven by that impulse and in love with that result. They've got a throb at which it's hard not to wonder and, like more than one of us, an aching oddball soul." –Graham Foust Show more