Hartigan's pool [5 choruses] takes readers into a porous realm where singular and multiple voices fuse. Amidst high levels of public noise-reportage on wars, elections, more-these poems journey into the accruals, interstices, and resistances of pooled and individual song. Through continuously recalibrating voices and forms, they explore: how do we distinguish personal cry from choral cry, song from noise, the "fragile, wet word of the spirit" from an over-lit presence? These choruses move through a spectral, multi-layered stage.
