As in her first collection, MUSE, which featured stunning poems about Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot's wife Vivienne, Aizenberg imagines herself into the minds and hearts of a wide variety of others, including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Roman Vishniac and the Warsaw Jews he photographed, Dust Bowl survivors, the mother of a teenage boy shot dead by the police, the nineteenth-century inmates of a Quaker penitentiary, and a fictional member of a group like the Weather Underground.
As in her first collection, MUSE, which featured stunning poems about Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot's wife Vivienne, Aizenberg imagines herself into the minds and hearts of a wide variety of others, including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Roman Vishniac and the Warsaw Jews he photographed, Dust Bowl survivors, the mother of a teenage boy shot dead by the police, the nineteenth-century inmates of a Quaker penitentiary, and a fictional member of a group like the Weather Underground.