"Ethel Rackin's Go On immediately calls to mind Beckett's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on, ' and out of that silence come these brief and powerful poems written 'after centuries of loss/ in the last century.' A visionary, Rackin's preoccupations are seeing and its impossibility. Time is both full of historical weight and the mysterious present, 'as if the before and after had frozen/ and couldn't be tracked down.' Quiet, sure, possessed of a subtle, winning tenderness, and often most at home in the quotidian, the poems dart among truths...