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As is ever the case with Michael Crummey, his writing in “Passengers” is manifold, rewarding multiples readings and open to inspiring who knows what theatre script or music album.
With the first half of the volume, Crummey has set himself an intriguing task, an homage to Tomas Tranströmer , the Swedish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. And “on the Dover Fault // Two continents collided along this line. / They exchanged insurance information while / waiting for the police. Adjusters arrived to / assess the damage. Lawyers floated around them / like a boom trying to contain an oil spill. / On the advice of counsel neither party admits fault. // 2. // Two continents collided along this line. / One was recently widowed, the other / had been arguing all night with her husband.