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Veronica Bench
Leopoldine Core
Coconut Books, $ 18 (paper)
Veronica Bench, Leopoldine Core's first full-length book of poetry , is densely populated with girls in trouble and animals erupting from cartoonish sweetness into violence. Core's v isc eral poems narrate a landscape filled equally with wonder and dread. The collection alternates between page-long digressive poems, whic h weave memory into finely drawn surreal episodes, and tiny...