Slot
by Jill Magi
Ugly Duckling Presse 2011
Reviewed by Gina Myers
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“…if I flee consolation…”
In Jill Magi’s new collection of poetry, to slot means to curate, to categorize, to place away. Dedicated to New York and written in the wake of September 11, 2001, Slot shows Magi, a New York City resident, on a quest to understand memorializing and acts of public and private grief. Published in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Dossier Series, which features works of an investigative nature, Slot looks to a variety of sources in an attempt to make sense of this era. However, the more she investigates and learns, the more complicated the issue becomes.
In Slot, the speaker wanders in and out of museums, goes to work in the days…
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