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'Midway through her debut poetry collection Moon Wrasse, in the poem “A promontory / A memory,” Willo Drummond uses form to mimic the shape of meandering thought, contained in a moment of encounter with the natural world as personified in “pink and purple pig-face / tailors of the coast / salt-resistant sentries” (61). The poem curls down the page like a path, and enacts in doing so the encounter of subjects. The flowers are active companions, overtly present: “Their gesture fills a space / that walks with me, / walks beside me, / treads here too” (61). The poem offers respect to their agency in making response. (Introduction)
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This Self Is Not One : Willo Drummond's Moon Wrasse
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