All About You

Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it. You almost let your ego go, he writes, but oh/maybe tomorrow. Revolving through moments of sociability and passages of inwardness, the poets address shifts in these poems from I to you and back again, inviting his audience to shift along with him. Out of that agility, All About You builds a generous model of what it means to pay attention, and drafts a delicately post-pandemic we: imagine what a healed people could do / Just flesh full of chatter / Hush now / Come on, lets run