Whether they're graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in Dawn Potter's ravishing second collection of poetry, "betray a fatal longing" for love's complications. By turns comic and melancholy, hungry and euphoric, these poems surrender again and again to the passions and panics of experience.
Whether they're graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in Dawn Potter's ravishing second collection of poetry, "betray ...
Even as she reminds us that writing "doesn't solve anything," Potter is driven to chronicle "the years murmur ing] their old tune" in this compilation of sonnets, extended narratives, and shifting invented forms. Her rushing lyric voice binds together the personal, cultural, and imaginative histories that create the inevitable complications of human character.
Even as she reminds us that writing "doesn't solve anything," Potter is driven to chronicle "the years murmur ing] their old tune" in this compilation...
