Mary Jo Bang, The Last Two Seconds (Graywolf Press, March 2015): The cover text jumps at you, curving around the side of a red space-car rushing its passengers toward…adventure? Disaster? The void? These poems are similarly urgent and kinetic—and moving, in all senses of the word. The central concept is time, how it wears down the body and how too little of it seems to be left as we face down doomsday clocks, weather anomalies, and an epic wave of extinctions. And, as Publisher’s Weekly noted in its starred review, her sure, clear voice is a rare combination of the lyrical and the experimental—always surprising but never opaque.
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