Piano in the DarkPoetry from an especially deft magician of words. This latest book of wonders from Nancy Naomi Carlson fixes upon one of the few defenses we have to confront the bodys betrayalsour words. Though in the end, even the worlds last word forgets its name . . . has no word for this forgetting. At once vulnerable and open, tempered and tempted equally by the erotic and the empathic, such dualities limn these affectingly beautiful and lyrical poems. Carlsons