Frequently, poets send the Dresser their books. When she gets backed on reviewing, some books are short changed. She’s going to try the following approach for reviewing.
Title: The Mouth Is Also a Compass
Publisher: Barrow Street Presss
Copyright: 2024
Number of Pages: 76
Special Honor: winner, Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize chosen by Nathalie Handal
Blurbs by: Nathalie Handal, Joan Houlihan, Diana Khoi Nguyen
Key Descriptors: climate, climate change, apocalypse, survival, feminism
First Sentence: Before I leave, Fifth Avenue becomes a desert. (from “The Expedition Begins”)
Last Sentence: The/ ocean continues to beat its enormous/ liquid heart. (from “Chapter 16: [How the Last Ice Age Appears]”)
Comment: Carrie Bennett, author of three previous volumes of poetry, is an experimentalist who often favors the prose poem. Her last section of …Compass—The Explorer’s Handbook of Survival—reads like a novel in verse.
No comments:
Post a Comment