With their extravagant musicality, Triplett’s poems explore the thinning lines between responsibility and complicity, the tangled “supply chain” that unnervingly connects the domestic to the political, personal memory to social practice, and age-old familial discords to our new place in the anthropocentric world. Equal parts celebration and lament for the mechanisms we shape and are shaped by, these poetic acts reveal the poet as an entangled mediator among registers of public and private, intimate and historical, voicings. Here we traffic in the blessings and burdens of the human will to shape a world. What’s more, as we follow these linked enchainings of the deeply en-worlded citizen, we reawaken to the central paradox of our time, the need to refuse easy answers, to stay open, trilling, between these necessary notes of critique and of compassion. 

Pimone Triplett is the author of Rumor, The Price of Light, and Ruining the Picture, as well as coeditor with Dan Tobin of the essay anthology, Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play. She teaches at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle, Washington. 

— Srikanth Reddy, author, Voyager

— Major Jackson