"The poet s journey into the past and another culture, fired by eponymous inspiration, leads to discoveries, a new appreciation of lost moments. To bridge three centuries and create a verbal portrait though a picture is lacking is quite an achievement. Naturally, this effort will be compared to John Berryman s great poem about Anne Bradstreet, but to no harm."--David Ray
"In this fascinating sequence Penelope Scambly Schott poignantly re-imagines a devastating story in language that brings together the sensibilities of centuries distant in time but not, at their most intimate, in...
"The poet s journey into the past and another culture, fired by eponymous inspiration, leads to discoveries, a new appreciation of lost moments. To...
Flying Wounded, Susan McCaslin's seventh book of poetry, is a daring exploration of the disturbance wreaked on a daughter by her mother's ill-treated, then untreated, mental illness and of the daughter's almost miraculous transformation. The first half of the book charts the decline of the mother, "a boisterous southern woman of voluminous laughter" who finds herself "incarcerated in an inquisitional tower." The tower is both the asylum (a university hospital) and, later, her own phobic existence as a "mall bag lady."
Flying Wounded, Susan McCaslin's seventh book of poetry, is a daring exploration of the disturbance wreaked on a daughter by her mother's ill-t...
"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding the words, the exact names, for a world that is almost unbearably precious, evanescent, wild."-- Edward Hirsch
In these moving poems, Judy Michaels illuminates an intense period of five years in her life: against a backdrop that celebrates her young students, an enduring marriage, and the power of music and mountains, she writes about the sudden loss of her mother to cancer, her father's ensuing depression and alcoholism, and her own...
"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding ...
"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding the words, the exact names, for a world that is almost unbearably precious, evanescent, wild."-- Edward Hirsch
In these moving poems, Judy Michaels illuminates an intense period of five years in her life: against a backdrop that celebrates her young students, an enduring marriage, and the power of music and mountains, she writes about the sudden loss of her mother to cancer, her father's ensuing depression and alcoholism, and her own...
"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding ...
"Rafting Rise is a terrific book, the richly detailed evocation of an entire world, and an important contribution to the literature of the rural South."--Ted Kooser
"Rafting Rise has the strength of extended narrative and the quickness of lyric poetry. There is a haunting, visionary quality to Joe Survant's dramatic poem, bringing to life a world of log rafting and floodplain dwellers along the Rough and Green Rivers in 1916 and 1917. The sections are snapshots and ballads of witness, a counterpoint of voices that open a window on this long-ago time and place, of giant...
"Rafting Rise is a terrific book, the richly detailed evocation of an entire world, and an important contribution to the literature of the r...
