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Rawshock by Toby Fitch

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October 2012, no. 345

Rawshock by Toby Fitch

Puncher & Wattmann, $25 pb, 89 pp, 9781921450617

Rawshock by Toby Fitch

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October 2012, no. 345

As a result of the public works of Puncher & Wattmann, it has been established yet again that a book of poetry can andshould combine meaning and design in a shock of pleasure. Toby Fitch’s first full-length collection, especially the central title poem, does this in spades. Orpheus returns to Hades to rescue Eurydice. In ten poems, each mirroring the original Rorschach ink blot on the page facing it, they spark and spar in a very modern way that has the dankness of Hades clinging to it.

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