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A Review of Joseph Fasano's The Last Song of the World

Like a deep breath, like a flower that blooms against the relentless elements of an inhospitable season, Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World begins with “Sudden Hymn in Winter,” a short but powerful poem, functioning almost as the collection’s own epigraph:

What if, after years
of trial,
a love should come
and lay a hand upon you
and say,
this late
your life is not a crime