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Ben Doller

Reviews of the book

“It has been almost a decade since the pyrotechnic and youthful exuberance of Ben Doller’s (previously Doyle) debut collection Radio, Radio (2001)—a decade in which his showmanship has seasoned into a poetics of sustained and quizzical Aristotelian kinesis. As a reversal of Rilke’s famous advice for the nearly anonymous Franz Kapus to ‘live the question,’ Doller’s FAQ: arises out of the dismantling of inquiry. . . . Thinking outside the box is just about the squarest thing one can do (‘Endless imagination is sourge, is bane’) but Doller does just that, resensitizing us to the potential richnness, precision, and beauty of language exhausted from work: ‘A few of us must bear more than the rest. I do not know which of us I am.’”—from Noah Eli Gordon's review in Boston Review