Reading The Blue Wife Poems, I think of Adam Zagajewski: "Only in the beauty created / by others is there consolation, / in the music of others and in others' poems." To consolation, I would add solace. I would add awe at the transformation of pain into beauty. This is what I ask for in poetry, and what Hayley Mitchell Haugen delivers in this small, perfect collection. This book dazzles in its unflinching look at the legacy of secrecy...
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