ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE

Adrienne Chung narrates this collection of haunting, vivid, playful poems in a tone full of questioning. Many of the poems themselves feel like questions: What do our dreams have to tell us about our lives? How does memory change over time? Is it possible to truly let go of the things that have shaped us? Chung's narration is smooth and rhythmic, beautifully capturing the many internal rhymes in her work and giving the whole audiobook a sense of movement. There's also an unhurried, meandering feeling to the way she reads--as if she, alongside the listener, is pondering what the poems reveal about science, bodies, time, dreams, love, and memory. L.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2023]