First Nettles, Earliest Persons (Preview)

On the Substack version of this site , a review of Dom Hale’s First Nettles and Jennifer Soong’s My Earliest Person , both published by the Last Books. As it’s a long post (6,000 words or so) it’s only available in full behind the Substack paywall. But some excerpts below: “How did the earlier poets hold it together[?]” asks Hale in the wracked ode ‘Castor and Pollux’, which I first read in a…