RaveKenyon ReviewIn Keetje Kuipers’s candid, funny, achingly wistful third collection from BOA, Kuipers’s poems unearth a kind of magic hidden in the spaces we dwell in, from our homes to our towns, to our nation itself ... But more than place, time is at the heart of All Its Charms. Readers arrive in the middle of Kuipers’s family life, with only briefly remembered glimpses into the life that came before it, suggesting that memory—just as much as the past itself—creates the people we become ... The poems of All Its Charms press us into considering how our interior lives (both the self and the home) are shaped by the country they exist within, how our bodies may be countries all their own, and like this country, hold transgressions and mercies and wonders of many kinds. As dazzling as they are flawed, as ordinary as they are alluring.
