Ilan Mochari explores the natural world and the thoughtless harm-and joy-with which we inhabit it. Candid, vivid, and musical, the poems in Playthings are rousing meditations on subjects ranging from moons to miscarriages, gum trees to Georgia O'Keeffe skulls. Clarity and compassion shine through, as does a world-weary pathos that elevates the riveting material at hand.
