James Hall is possessed by the family romance, in particular the figure of a difficult mother who looms on his imaginative stage. 'I was, ' he writes, 'mothered into art.' And then some: Hall's poems are psychically charged, nervy, both measured and fevered, compassionate and outrageous, and alive to the very core. - Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems Now You're the Enemy is a brilliant exploration of the structure of feeling. This debut collection, in an astonishing sleight of hand, inflates representation in order to deflate the inner screen that provides both the...