Polite Forms is a sequence of poems that meditates on family life. These poems remember and reimagine scenes from childhood and adolescence through the formal composure of the sonnet, so that the uniformity of this framing device promotes a tension as between a neatly arranged album of photographs and the chaos and flow of experience itself. The poems are akin to pictures at an exhibition, which survey individual impressions of childhood and parenthood in a thematically continuous series of portraits drawn from life.
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Polite Forms is a sequence of poems that meditates on family life. These poems remember and reimagine scenes from childhood and adolescence through the formal composure of the sonnet, so that the uniformity of this framing device promotes a tension as between a neatly arranged album of photographs and the chaos and flow of experience itself. The poems are akin to pictures at an exhibition, which survey individual impressions of childhood and parenthood in a thematically continuous series of portraits drawn from life.
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