What is there to know about a poem except that the experience of a poem should press on the most local bodies (thus stories) to the most universal narratives like time, family, history, and freedom. The poems in "Black Lemonade: Poems" open up to notions of choice and vulnerability in the face of seemingly no choice and impenetrability. They seek out embedded narratives, play on the page and screen with words and the infinite metaphors that words are, in the presumed minds of infinite and eternal readers. This collection takes a stand, asserts the inevitability of choice in the face of the...