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Review Quotes: Bypassing the tired alleged border between 'art' and 'life', Adam Vines rushes headlong into the conditional 'perhaps, ' where imagination enters narrative time, and the moment of a painting's portrayal is newly understood beyond the merely representational as suddenly present and alive. With frank urgency and a relentlessly accurate eye, Adam Vines takes us through the ekphrastic mode on this wildly inventive pilgrimage. Here are poems that persuade by way of metaphoric leaps and overlaps, verbs harnessed to verbal acuity, the suspended sentence, and the startlingly blunt discovery. Again and again, Vines turns description into ritualistic act in these remarkably candid sacraments of soul. Out of Speech is a world whose attentions are astonishing.--Pimone Triplett