Cyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness, celebrating eros -- in his daring and prolific representation of lust, yes, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life -- through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece "You Be the Dancer," he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia, insisting on it "whether we're feeling frisky, / Empty-handed,...
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