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September 6, 2023 – Apogee Journal
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September 6, 2023

I Love My Pleasure: A Review of My Pleasure by Irene Silt

Love brings death closer. The collapsing space between is the setting of Irene Silt's My Pleasure (Deluge Books, 2022). Silt’s poems occupy the protracted time of wanting and waiting, elaborating the delay between desire and arrival—consummation of love or death. Illuminations strobe over a shadow world where oppositions melt inside one another: