Review of Take What You Want

• Published:
  1. Mid-American Review, August 01, 2007
• Metainfo:
  • 441 words
  • 14.7 inches

"You can take what you want," the final poem of Henrietta Goodman's highly confessional debut collection tells us, "and what you want / will want to be taken." This logic is both the eponymous source of Take What You Want and its hopeful promise. It yields a kind of syllogism: We can take what we want. What we want wants to be taken. We want what wants us.