A review by jrt5166
American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates

3.0

I found Oates's storytelling compelling, which I guess is no surprise. My initial instinct was that she's not overly interested in form, but upon further reflection, I think it would be more accurate to say that I didn't understand a lot of her form choices. After all, one doesn't put a line break in the middle of a word by accident.