Transfer of Qualities

"Martha Ronk has been an experimental poetry darling for years, but this may indeed be her breakthrough: It’s a series of prose meditations on objects found in rooms and the pressures they exert on the people going in and out of those rooms. Ronk has a cold, analytical tone that breaks suddenly and surprisingly into feeling in the oddest places. Is this poetry? Who knows, who cares — it’s really, really good."