The Art of Shutting Up by Fern Angel Beattie Will Harris Often dramatic and incantatory in

Often dramatic and incantatory in his poetics

It is a journey of both grace and humility

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Sohini Basak's intricately woven

The Art of Shutting Up by Fern Angel Beattie Will Harris Often dramatic and incantatory inThese are powerful poems of love, and loss and sex and regret, wrapped up in a tidal wave of confessional. Beatties close and honest portrayals of relationships real and imagined evoke Frank OHaras busy city streets pressed with flesh. As she writes in her preface, throughout her days she cannot separate myself from this desire and what a ride it takes us on. Her art of shutting up is one that takes instead to the written page, and in Bellows phrase,