White Thought, by Tom Clark [Book review]

<div>[para. 1]: ""Every life is the story of a collapse," writes Tom Clark in his book of poems, <strong>Like Real People</strong>, quoting the writer E.M. Cioran. Clark then expands on this statement, insisting that the poet contains diverse lives, retrieving the "deepest and purest voices of the human collective's several selves."</div> <p>"What else," he continues, "are the figures of poetry but the extrapolations of all the continually collapsing lives that quarrel within us?""</p>