Ward Toward (Volume 118) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Ok has a fine ear, including an appreciation for overlapping sounds, and can spin modern free verse with a wonderful technique ("you honor the years you had person / permanence"). She ensures that this technique, including interesitng experiments in found poetry and in layout, intensifies—and does not interfere with—the concepts she expresses. These concepts can be quite disturbing, from mental illness and personal abuse to mass violence and climate devastation, but also has room for humor and humanity. One can surmise that the unconventional syntax Ok records from her immigrant parents and grandparents have tuned her senses to the unusual use of English that forms her creative free verse.