Old Business Piet Gerbrandy as she considers the perpetual

as she considers the perpetual dialogue between what is open and what is shut for each of us

John Berger

Denise Levertov

and tenderness of the human

Old Business Piet Gerbrandy as she considers the perpetualRyan Dobran The poetry of Ryan Dobran begins in a congenial, observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect, a prismatic language that pivots unassumingly through shades of the quotidian and the disenchanted, the earnest and the circumspect, the ingenuous and the vatic. It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism, conscientious of the