Kevin Goodan, in his third collection, Anaphora...confronts violence and suicide in an impoverished rural community through a fiery litany of elegiac poems ... Anaphora is an elegy in honor of those lost in translation, those who never make it back. The speaker’s rage builds climatically and then crack in moments of earnest and unbridled grief.
Anaphora matters artistically, politically, and historically, and is especially welcome now, when writers with close ties to long-marginalized groups need to be heard with more urgency than ever ... In Anaphora, Goodan once again earns his place where fine poetry is a living, breathing creation of hard-earned, essential grace.
