Lyrical gangstas

By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 1, 2006
Like Penelope’s, the poems of Summer Lines surge with the urge for talk — both musical and clipped, both sorrowful and rakish — between intimates. The Tenants Harbor ambassadors bring frank and common talk to the table and, in sharing it, do well to bring the prose-world into closer conversation with its nearby neighbor of verse.
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