Unbecoming

Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan''s sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friends...