Old Business Jackie Wang the painful ongoing process of

the painful ongoing process of letting go

displacing and distorting our sense of intimacy

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In perennial fashion presence falling

Old Business Jackie Wang the painful ongoing process ofRyan Dobran The poetry of Ryan Dobran begins in a congenial, observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect, a prismatic language that pivots unassumingly through shades of the quotidian and the disenchanted, the earnest and the circumspect, the ingenuous and the vatic. It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism, conscientious of the