BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’

Hemisphere by Ellen Hagan (Triquarterly Books, 96 pgs.,  $16.95) Ellen Hagan’s new collection of poetry, “Hemisphere,” is finally tuned to the form. In “Mint Julep,” she writes, “Nostalgic for what? / Old South—prim, pomp, / proper, powdered & permed, /permanent,...