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All I Wanted

by Jake Young
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ake Young’s All I Wanted is grounded in the poet’s beginnings in multicultural California and in particular social situations, both of which he connects with place, nature, and the body. He reaches back to the speech act’s origins, its physicality, to what poetry is, coming as it does from “fragrances” of plants we gathered from the start, and not being able to “help / but name what we collect… / we learned to speak.” Young takes on the mantle of his exquisite capacity for speech, time-traveling from human inception to the Anthropocene age, reminding us that the ecosystems’ destruction is our own. The speaker implicates the smallest things in daily life, the egg yolk “bleeding / sustenance in this routine / that’s killing me.” Though loss permeates his vision, it would be a mistake to think that Young doesn’t revel in nature’s majesty, sublimity, and simplicity. “The black-eyed Susans / turn to the sun.

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