A review by mariannemersereau
Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd Outgrown by Jill McCabe Johnson

5.0

Jill McCabe Johnson's poems in this collection are easy to read even though they often deal with difficult subjects. Many of the poems serve as witness to the historical and current violence that is endemic in our society and the losses one can experience over a lifetime. The poems sing with honesty and clarity and offer a measure of hope as they ground themselves in resilient images from the natural world. Johnson's poems remind us, as she writes in "Light Soaks into the Landscape" that "we are all bowed by the lone, sometimes daunting, often exhilarating eventuality of coil and bloom."