There is a density to the poems in Nancy Esposito's LAMENTATION WITH JUNE BUG, a palpability in the rhythm and sounds of the lines that give her stanzas a solidity that evokes the world itself, what "we loved without letting go." "The poet leans over her cat, giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before he's rushed to the hospital. She discovered in this act 'a universal: breathing/is not an extra the way a kidney may be/or a limb. Nor is love, even this/stubbed, unskilled, blundering love.' This is not a book of extras, but of essences. It is a book of traumas: losses of marriage, of lovers, of friends, and finally of parents (mother, first to dementia and then to death.) These losses are hers and her generations's: among them, that of a fellow Vietnam War scholar who kiled himself in Kentucky, trapped by the ugly violence of Khe Sanh, 1968. A book both difficult and necessary to read, it is 'a love poem/...to the gorgeous chaos you [and you and we] have become."--Susan Schultz ...

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