In a comparative review of Kim Rosenfield's Lividity (Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2012) and Steven Zultanski's Agony (Toronto: Book Thug, 2012), I consider the hyper-objectification of speech and the speaking subject in long-form poetry. Though the works under review address these themes in differing ways and to different effect, I dwell on their shared, constructed "intensities and densities of spoken language and/or language about speech."
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