![]() This is not to say one can fully comprehend every layer of feeld: appropriately, Charles leaves plenty of room for interpretation as her wordplay produces a great deal of double entendre. It is a meticulous work there is nothing rushed or careless in it. Both aurally and visually, the white space enhances the content, giving the reader time to grasp the meaning of each poem, as well as nearly every line and word. Throughout the book, which contains sixty short poems, it is evident Charles is a poet who values breath and space. ![]() ![]() feeld –– which is currently longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in poetry –– challenges the reader to engage with a singular, complex voice (“Chaucerian English into the digital twenty-first century,” as Fady Joudah notes on the book’s jacket), but one that is also accessible and refined. A few days ago, I woke up half-dreaming in the made-up language of Jos Charles’s feeld (64 pages Milkweed Editions), which is to say I landed softly. ![]()
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