Jiwon Choi doesn't hold back when it comes to the outer life we all deal with, or the inner life with its particular wrenchings and beauties. Her tough-minded, original poems—and her wonderful eye for detail—remind us that poems can be haunting whether they focus on chronic problems in our society or the death of someone close or the kind of white bread "that reminds you of flesh off the backside or that resides inner thigh."