The Latest Winter

Maggie Nelson. Hanging Loose Press, $21 (98pp) ISBN 978-1-931236-22-5

""I'm not going to write anything out of guilt, I mean grief"" writes Maggie Nelson in her second warily exuberant collection. Passing the late Kenneth Koch and Eileen Myles on her way ""Deeper/ into the dream,"" Nelson makes The Latest Winter into ""wagons, kabobs, sugar-dips, cannons"" and sets herself ""apart in a/ made up way.""

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