God Complex by Rachel Allen David Harsent the mother and the “I”

the mother and the “I” that recalls its life

provide insights into the writing and its familiar themes — love

tough consonance

"Wolflight" (2007)

Taylor’s literary culture is basic and concrete

God Complex by Rachel Allen David Harsent the mother and the “I”God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakup of a toxic relationship in the face of the similarly toxic catastrophe of global degradation and disaster. Through the fiery and unstable speaker of the poem, these conditions become fused, lending themselves to the depiction of unutterable thoughts and seams of emotion. Measuring the impact of pollutants through an