
The central project of Kevin Clark's The Consecrations is to explore what we cannot see-that is, how unseen realities affect our private and public lives. As Elizabeth Alexander suggests in the book's epigraph, "We walk into that which we cannot yet see." Sometimes...

About a previous book, poet Martha Collins describes Kevin Clark's ability to move "seamlessly" between subjects and timeframes; she notes, "Kevin Clark's poems perform the magic his passion dictates and his intelligence won't quite allow." Indeed, the reader finds such magic,...