Puzzle No Edges by Naomi Buck Palagi

Puzzle No Edges by Naomi Buck Palagi

‘Puzzle No Edges is built upon a love of language, including Gulieupshtut, so that some poems rest in down-home slang while others require the effort of reading a familiar but decidedly foreign language. Idiomatic speech patterns swim with startling idiosyncratic phrases, allowing untutored figures to achieve clarity and brilliance. In “South Florida”, for example, the same narrator muses, "I might never of left from South Florida" and repeatedly declares they are "moving to Tuscon", yet describes with evocative clarity the way "the rain grudged the windows". Through both language and subject matter, this collection mourns, celebrates, and embodies the way reality cannot be contained. "It gets so hard in the howl", Buck Palagi affirms before observing that "a small red fox is just now giving birth". Thus she illuminates how both joy and pain kick up evidence of the soul’s quickening.” (Sheri Reda)

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