A Daily Glance
Kate Greenstreet’s
The Last 4 Things is staggeringly good. It even comes with a DVD of Greenstreet mostly reading over films. Since I’ve never heard her read live, the DVD was tremendously helpful. It sets the pace of her voice for the reading experience. Even without it though, this collection plays with framing, with how much we see events. It explores memory and the borders of knowing (like the border between death and life). The speaker jumps around quite a bit in each piece of the title piece, but it all hangs together, though I’d be hard-pressed to explain quite how. In fact, the piece “One begins with so little” is one of my favorite poems that I’ve read by anyone in quite a long time. It weaves together at least five themes in a seemingly effortless manner. It concerns memory, death, and the meandering nature of life; plus, the lines are well-crafted and seem to meditatively float in front of us.
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