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Sometimes I tried never to think about the past. Sometimes I tried always to think about the past: A Review of THIS PAPER BOAT by Gregory Kan

We are often told that every first book is an autobiography. With This Paper Boat, Gregory Kan subverts this expectation. This book-length sequence of poems intertwines Kan’s autobiographical writing with the work of Iris Wilkinson (a New Zealand writer who published under the name Robin Hyde in the 1930s), as well as other found language.…

Sometimes I tried never to think about the past. Sometimes I tried always to think about the past: A Review of THIS PAPER BOAT by Gregory Kan