Where, in a poem, is “here”? For Megan Fernandes, it often seems to designate a city, with 20 of them appearing across the 49 poems in her collection “I Do Everything I’m Told.”
Where, in a poem, is “here”? Suppose a poem depicts a scene. When you read it, do you feel yourself transported there? Or do you feel in the presence of the poet at her desk, recalling the scene and telling you about it?
And yet the proliferation of these cities imbues them with a sense of unreality; the poems don’t so much feel set in the cities as gesture toward them from some other, unspecified place. In one poem, which seems to occur in the aftermath of a breakup, Fernandes writes, “There is no home / and nothing to return to, just a series of shadows, partial signs of presence: a flickering.
But a belief in “being led” also leaves behind a trail, and Fernandes studies the map she’s made. “One winter,” Fernandes tells us, “I became very quiet / and saw my life.” She wants to know whether that life coheres as narrative, whether between the points of its global itinerary there exists something like a constellation. Fernandes tests this question in a crown of sonnets that appear in the book’s second section.
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