a dressmaker who is given to taking laudanum
the excitement that happens when a voice so fully itself meets subject matter of the greatest importance
with a fearless and natural complexity
Which is to say Fox’s poetry is an augmented-reality divining rod
Such contradictions are expressed in his intense poetry
Honey Protocols by Monica Rinck, translated by Nicholas Grindell Harry Josephine Giles a dressmaker who is givenAmong many other things, Honey Protocols can be approached as a dictionary (offering peculiar and extravagant definitions of creatures and concepts alike), as a routine documenting its own abolition (48 of its 66 poems open with the same phrase, escaping this compulsion towards the end), or as a book of tall tales (in one, two men sail a three masted trampoline out onto a lake, the trampoline capsizes, they sink, the lake spits them back out onto the