"In overlapping moments, Revoke rises and falls, poem by poem, to become lyric symphony of multivocality, profound repetition, and silence. The collection draws on the poet's early training in visual art and film, as well as the form of the lament in Greek culture, both ancient and contemporary. Levels of loss--of mothers and mothering, of the complexities of female agency-are sounded and measured in fragmented, cinematic shifts between image and event as if to investigate how discursive gestures and the lyric, when fractured, can turn in tension with one another to refute linearity, yet still create vivid moments of human time and experience. The result is a powerful collection that shows us how the epic may be embodied in lyric form, holding all and telling all, with the precision, beauty, and complexity that grief, and all human experience, deserves"--
