SEEK AN EXIT FROM THE SELF

Noah Warren, The Destroyer in the Glass (Volume 110 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets),  foreword by Carl Phillips (New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 2016) (From the book jacket: "Noah Warren's taut poems explore the damage we do--to ourselves as to others--in our pursuit of knowledge and self-knowledge. Restlessly seeking an exit from the self, his voice interrogates the dark logic of isolation and the ache for community, and tests the consolations of each. As he counterpoints a tendency toward form, rhyme, and allusion with a freer, more ruminative line, this exceptional poet charts the dawning of moral consciousness--the world breaking into us, despite us.").