Suede Mantis / Soft Rage The Black Unicorn Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in

Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in their unpredictability

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Suede Mantis / Soft Rage The Black Unicorn Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—inJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made