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The AAG Review OF BOOKS Other poems in the book also Tim Cresswell. London: present a fluidity of objects ∼ Penned in the Margins, materials ∼ referents ∼ speakers ∼ 2020. 76 pp., notes. £7.99 becomings. “The Two Magicians” paper (ISBN 978-1-908058- (p. 23), the title of which refers to 76-8). a nineteenth-century traditional folk ballad, brings together chem- Reviewed by Eric ical names for DDT, a list of items Magrane, Department of found in the stomach of a beached Geography and whale, references to the eigh- Environmental Studies, teenth-century Enclosure Act, to New Mexico State nineteenth-century poet John Clare, and to musicians Patsy University, Las Cruces, Cline and Bruce Springsteen, to NM. name just a few of the juxtaposi- tions that make their way into the poem. Throughout, a refrain of The title of Tim Cresswell’s book “she became” and “he became” of poetry Plastiglomerate refers to builds a kind of magical poem a rock that is made of sedimen- space in which the “she” and “he” tary materials, natural debris, and are not bounded subjects but are plastic, melded in fire. Its hybrid- everywhere and unmoored in the ity feels like a quintessential multitude: “and he became
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Published: Apr 3, 2023
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