Ange Mlinko is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Distant Mandate, her fifth book of poems, was published in July. (December 2017)
Last summer I had one of those happy experiences in the life of a reader: I found the perfect book for my purposes. Those purposes were vague, and I found the book by accident, but it was the book that put everything into focus. I was going to Tuscany for …
