Troubled resonates with the Dalhousie Review

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Among the strongest of the more purely lyrical books of poems is RM Vaughan's Troubled, an explicitly autobiographical book about the poet's transgressive relationship with his therapist. As this at-times tortured book makes abundantly clear through skillful composition and brilliant execution by Coach House Books, human relationships are frail things, especially when power comes into play. Vaughan's sheer vulnerability as numbness and panic set in over this affair gone wrong—he describes himself as 'a spectre, a film, gauze and netting' (56)—makes this a painfully readable performance.