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Monica Youn, . . Graywolf, $14 (64pp) ISBN 978-1-55597-381-0

"Technically edible/ like the nasturtiums," Youn's poems are a decadent decade's blowback, "[s]omething authoritative,/ asymmetrical, perhaps/ a bit outré." A Houston-raised former Stegner fellow, Youn is a lawyer in New York, and delivers these 42 poems "ex machina in silver lamé."

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