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Azimuth
debut poetry
by Carol Ciavonne
art by Beatriz Albuquerque

“illumined and illuminated” — D. A. Powell

“She wears her best dress and she’s hired” describes not a poet but a mourner, but maybe it is the poet, in Carol Ciavonne’s new book Azimuth. The ways, the directions possible in language are the troubling engagements of this book in which a line might appear—for instance, “Not speaking is foreign; the tongue is bronzed”—which is destined to stay with the reader, to nestle in the mind like a pet or a pest forever. The ways this book is beautiful are the same as the ways it is troubling. This is writing as a new necessity.” —Bin Ramke