PositiveKenyon ReviewMany of these poems ruminate on failure and attention and the mysteries of both actions in concert with thinking. Perhaps the definition most clearly attached to the speaker of this book is not one who is incapable of learning, but one who does not learn ... Dunce is a tremendous meditation on what’s sudden in the mind. What is suddenly. The simultaneity of learning and thinking. And how quickly both, and everything, can (will) vanish. There is a sense that mortality is the nagging echo in the ear of the speaker of this book.
