In Carol Tyx's Rising to the Rim, we are in the presence of a thoughtful and loving sensibility that speaks in a language both energetic and simply put, language that opens a door and invites us in to marvel at what these poems notice-from a red tomato hidden behind its leaves to a revelation in old hiking boots, from the loneliness of an empty house to the red surprise of a raspberry patch ready to give today "what you missed yesterday." Time and again these poems suggest a mature poet, who has raised children and seen her parents through the end of their lives, a poet who rages deliberately...
In Carol Tyx's Rising to the Rim, we are in the presence of a thoughtful and loving sensibility that speaks in a language both energetic and simply pu...