New Review Up at Blackbird

...On the cover of The History of Anonymity, the title sits on the horizon line as if to warn that “anonymity” is not a territory to be charted. This book is not about a persona waiting to be unmasked, or an author decoding biography. Anonymity becomes, in mathematical terms, an asymptotic function—though you may get closer and closer to understanding the speakers at hand, you’ll never fully know them, you’ll never reach the vanishing point in which your consciousness fuses with theirs. That’s a mystery I can live with. It’s a mystery I wish contemporary poets asked us to engage more often....