Heather Hamilton: I’m currently rereading Paula Bohince’s Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, a poetry collection that doubles as a murder mystery, though to file it under any one term would be reductive. In fact, Incident is a complex and breathtaking book, pulling double duty on multiple fronts: at once rooted in a specific terror and speaking eloquently to the larger human condition, gleaning the best qualities from both narrative and lyric and melding them into a graceful whole, and forever tossing that strange coin whose faces are violence on the one side and beauty on the other. This is a book that not only withstands but deserves multiple readings.
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