I just finished reading Book of Asters, Sally Rosen Kindred’s haunting second collection (Mayapple Press, 2014). The poems in Book of Asters, like the poems in Kindred’s first full-length book, No Eden, explore themes of motherhood, grief, and spirituality in beautiful, lyrical language. Many of the poems turn flowers into metaphors for womanhood and desire, exploring theContinue reading “New Review: Book of Asters by Sally Rosen Kindred”
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New Review: Small Chimes by Julie Brooks Barbour
I just finished Small Chimes by Julie Brooks Barbour (Aldrich Press, 2014). What a pleasure: it’s that rare sort of poetry collection you can pick up and read straight through, cover to cover. There’s a narrative, a momentum that pulls you through. I started and couldn’t stop. Here is small town life, family life, in allContinue reading “New Review: Small Chimes by Julie Brooks Barbour”
MARY MCMYNE 