When we accepted Jason Bradford’s poem “They’re Hypnotic,
But…” for BL #21, it was because of a sense of connection we felt with the
speaker, through his own sense of connection to, of all things, jellyfish.
That same sense of connection is what makes Bradford’s first
collection of poetry, a chapbook called The Inhabitants (Final Thursday Press 2013), which includes that poem, so appealing.
No. Wait.
Not connection alone. It’s a disconnect, really, that comes
to light as you move through these taut, prosy poems.
