On Claire DeVoogd’s ‘Via’
Claire DeVoogd is a multifarious poet based in Brooklyn. Via is her first book. Writing more than eight centuries after the legendary Breton poet based at the English court, Marie de France, DeVoogd addresses her literary ancestor casually and intimately, like a familiar spirit.
Via
Claire DeVoogd
Winter Editions, 2023, 136 pages, $20.00, ISBN 978-1-959708-04-9
“What were the dead like? What sort of people are we living with now? Why are we here? What are we going to do? Let’s try putting it in another way.”
— W. H. Auden, The Orators (1932)
