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When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

Poem Talk

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The Grey Monochrome of the Indian Gregory Peck

The poem is a portrait of the subway and the subway station, gray of gray battleship. I see that in the subway, you know, I can't help but think of in a station of the Metro. So it's not the flowers that emerge from the people's faces in the subway. This is a moment of brutality when a person has beaten into animal bone, right in the Subway.

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