Cephalopodic Chekhov…and Job

Chekhov…and Job

lusty and wailing

rather than bringing closure or relief at a poem’s end

author of Developing a Photograph of God

a complete and utter submersion into text

Cephalopodic Chekhov…and JobNothing is more anticipated, more fraught, more loaded, more parodied, more remembered, or more desired than a love poem. In this bold new collection, J. P. Dancing Bear manages, rather remarkably, to evoke and invoke some of the great romantic gestures of poetic history while simultaneously charting entirely new poetic territory. At one moment, his rich aquatic imagery recalls Walt Whitman or Pablo Neruda while at other times his voice feels utterly