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mepresley's review
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
There were some lovely poems here, but overall nothing that resonated with me strongly. Also a lot of poems that I didn’t care for much at all, which isn’t to say they lack skill, only that they didn’t speak to me.
My favorites were “Luba, Stargazing,” “Limelight,” “She Imagines Being a Hustler on the Night of the Full Moon,” “Meditation: The /Xam People, Sequences, Kalahari,” “The Queen of the Radishes,” “Aprille, The Mansion,” and “The Singers.”
Some excerpts:
“Luba, Stargazing”
"Like the Seventh Sister of the Pleiades
known only to the eye of the expert hunter,
Luba concedes she's hard to find,
and sometimes lost to what she wants"
“The Queen of the Radishes”
"...she notes that the world
mimics her shape, although she is falling
in time to each coldness and wears at the core
her vegetable death"
"Aprille, The Mansion”
"Do they hear the sun's homily from a vast pulpit?
A body of memories on her tongue."
My favorites were “Luba, Stargazing,” “Limelight,” “She Imagines Being a Hustler on the Night of the Full Moon,” “Meditation: The /Xam People, Sequences, Kalahari,” “The Queen of the Radishes,” “Aprille, The Mansion,” and “The Singers.”
Some excerpts:
“Luba, Stargazing”
"Like the Seventh Sister of the Pleiades
known only to the eye of the expert hunter,
Luba concedes she's hard to find,
and sometimes lost to what she wants"
“The Queen of the Radishes”
"...she notes that the world
mimics her shape, although she is falling
in time to each coldness and wears at the core
her vegetable death"
"Aprille, The Mansion”
"Do they hear the sun's homily from a vast pulpit?
A body of memories on her tongue."
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