"The poems of Bain-Marie counter diffusion with distillation, and loss with creation, insisting that any "domestic alchemy" humans have invented to preserve our vision and experience is a form of art. Subtly, magically, Jordan's poems make us aware of poetry as the most beguiling domestic alchemy of all, an uncanny medium impregnable with what is otherwise ephemeral: our histories and desires. There's a wonderful iridescence to the voices Jordan creates. Though longing beats within her speakers like a pulse, they are also alert, analytical, skeptical, and self-aware. For these artists,...