A review by daramillz
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak

3.0

I apprecitated several of the poems in this, but overall, I wanted to like it more than I did. I didn't care for the framing of each title as "Portrait of the Artist..." -- it rang pretentious to me, and seemed like the only thing really trying to unify the collection, as otherwise the poems seemed largely disparate. I thought that her poems about parenthood were some of the strongest, and would enjoy reading more of her work on this theme. I did love the final poem, "Portrait of the Artist as a Bog Body," and will likely include that in some of my options for students studying poetry.