her poetry is also just the reality of life for her and others like her
and a gloss of words and allusions
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems is classic and living
ecological and political reckoning
My Destination by Daisy Fried Merlina Acevedo her poetry is also justPassionate, nervy (as in 'you've got a lot of'), telegraphic, indecorous, chewy, sharply observed and smart' ' August Kleinzahler My Destination, Daisy Fried's fifth book, explores renewal amid great loss ' a struggle as common as rain. As full of lived life as ever, as formally various, and as wide ranging in both subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated and indecorous, unsentimental and sharp. Fried's elbows are always out, her gaze