Whittling a New Face in the Dark by DJ Dolack

These poems of place leave space on the page for the reader to sit in the ideas presented about who people are. The strongest poems of this collection discuss the passion and emotion that is shared between two people, and the other poems resonate what it is like to pass someone you don't know and know there is a likeness between the two of you. Dolack's use of direct address fills these sparse poems with direct things for the reader to feel.