Displaced Familiarity: Voice, Then Meaning, in Contemporary Poetry (on Kathryn Nuernberger’s The End of Pink; Joshua Bennett’s The Sobbing School; James McMichael’s If You Can Tell; and Larry Levis’ The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems)

Kevin Clark’s third volume of poems, The Consecrations (2021), is published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. His second book, Self-Portrait with Expletives (2010), won the Pleiades Press prize. Clark’s poetry appears in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A frequent critic for The Georgia Review, he has also published essays in The Southern Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.