Bewilderness

Poetry. In Marc McKee’s compelling new collection, BEWILDERNESS, it’s not the past that’s a foreign country but the present–a world rendered strange to us because of the compounding forces of loss and tragedy, but also in the strangeness of ordinary events as seen through ‘special goggles’ offering always a new vision into the heart of things. This is how the poet’s dazzling use of language transforms the world we have experienced into something extraordinary, where understudies rush to the fore/playing characters you recognize/but no longer know.–Natasha Trethewey