A Reaction to Someone Coming In Dialect of Distant Harbors to the poet's friends and

to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms—form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire

From critical talks to fictional monologues

” Darwish’s poems cross histories

In SIGINT

A Reaction to Someone Coming In Dialect of Distant Harbors to the poet's friends andWendy Lotterman 'Wendy Lotterman is a scientist of feeling, here presenting discoveries with surgical precision. If it's true that "no good thing can be saved from a three legged relay with the bad," then what forms the third leg? Maybe it's these cool, discomfiting lines, which invent a canny language for a "weird, denuded universe" where "the event postdates the mood it turned into." The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like