Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

* C.D. Wright is one of the country’s watched poets * This is C.D.‘s first book of prose-unruly and undeniably brilliant. * Title refers to a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before he has had time to cool after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder. * A bit memoir, a bit poetics, a tad manifesto, and an ongoing argument with books. It is unlike anything out there. * As she writes: To see better we have to move at whatever pace we can tolerate in the direction of our blind spot, else learn to recognize its advance toward us-which is usually where we are most smugly and snugly ensconced.