"'A doorknob is a rock for the hand. It opens a hole in the wall,' Siken writes, and I can feel the rock in my hand. There is no metaphor here, only a search for the meaning that comes before metaphor." —Joseph Osmundson for the Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/siken-carson-poets-language-memory-loss-parkinsons-stroke/?src=longreads #writing #craft #poetry #longreads #biology #health #stroke #parkinsons