"The essence of the cicada," Claire Millikin says, "is burial and ascension," which is the essence of this stunning book, "Magicicada." Grounded in the experience of a teenager’s solitary confinement (for truancy and being a runaway), these poems draw on metaphor and linguistic fluidity. Seeing in the cicadas an emblem of confinement and release, Millikin sings a haunting song, shaping a litany against the brutality of isolation.