Wordplanting by Kendel Hippolyte Tom Sastry The book’s day takes us

The book’s day takes us on a three-part planetary journey

Hannah Linden

passes along

I admire this book for how it registers the weight of the world

As a result

Wordplanting by Kendel Hippolyte Tom Sastry The book’s day takes usKendel Hippolyte's poetry moves easily, boldly between the worlds of public engagement and the intimacies of domesticity. What unites this movement is the challenging, comforting, questioning sound of his voice, whether speaking to the generality, to the individual recipient of an implicit dialogue, or to himself. His is an art of sound, of rhythm, of form that disguises itself as no form, of the beauty of the crooked basket. He wants the poem to draw