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A review by alj24
Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster
5.0
This collection of poems really showed me what poetry can do in the hands of a master. Foerster traces images of maps and clay and land throughout these poems, creating a cohesive collection that explores these motifs and how they interweave with each other.
Most of the poems hover in that sweet spot of half understanding and half bewilderment and full awe of the world being spun together. It reminds me of the best thing that poetry can do--concurrently see the familiar as foreign through someone else's eyes and yet recognize the feelings undergirding the poem. I found myself not fully understanding some of these poems' words but deeply resonating with the feeling underneath it.
Most of the poems hover in that sweet spot of half understanding and half bewilderment and full awe of the world being spun together. It reminds me of the best thing that poetry can do--concurrently see the familiar as foreign through someone else's eyes and yet recognize the feelings undergirding the poem. I found myself not fully understanding some of these poems' words but deeply resonating with the feeling underneath it.