The inescapable injustice of imagination: on the recent work of Jennifer Moxley.

Imagination Verses is the first full-length book by a poet who first achieved at least some degree of national notoriety by her inclusion in the double "New Coast" issue of O-Blek magazine in 1993. Yet this long-awaited book of poetry that unironically "references" not only such "avant-garde" poets as Oppen and Palmer but also such "traditional" ones as Keats, Crane, and Wordsworth, makes Jennifer Moxley a difficult writer to place. In fact, part of the value of Imagination Verses is the way it rebukes the critic's desire to "place" ...