Paul Constant over at The Seattle Review of Books has reviewed This City by Claudia Castro Luna.  He notes that Luna “her poetry fights for the soul of this city with every single line” and we have to agree.  Go read the whole review here.

Poetry reacts in interesting ways when abutted against the deeply ceremonial wonkery of Council meetings. Luna’s poem “To tear a piece off my shadow as if from a loaf of bread,” for example, with its reminder that “Sometimes your life is a minute ahead and a few days behind the place you want to be,” gains an additional depth when presented as a preamble to legislation. The way Luna conflates time and space, yearning and loss, aspiration and failure in just a few words serves as a reminder that we may never arrive at exactly where we need to be at exactly the right time.

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