La Perruque Editions of Slack Buddha Press has released Rob Halpern’s latest chapbook Weak Link. The new chapbook sees Halpern’s continuing with formal and stylistic preoccupations similar to those in Disaster Suites, from Palm Press. Halpern’s use throughout Weak Link of a bracketed em-dash serves variously to punctuate, to elide, to trace the erasure of some parenthetical, and to denote caesura—it works brilliantly to bring the possibility of other voices, other discourses, into play in the poem without attempting to appropriate to speak for or on behalf of those impossible voices and instead to attempt to trace the point where they become inappropriate, to where the poem’s discourse becomes inappropriate to itself and to another. Another fine addition to Halpern’s lyrical project.