I started reading another Whitman award winner, Suji Kwock Kim this week for my poetry give-away. But sorry people, I'm on page 15 and this is a book I'm going to keep and savor, one of those that specifically talks to you at a moment in your life (I just had a baby, and the first poems of this book talk directly to that experience). It's a beautiful, soul-wrenching book. Notes from the Divided Country $6 from LSU Press. . So my offering this week is a book of poetry that I reviewed on Hayden Ferry Review's blog from one of our contributors: Immortal Sofa by Maura Stanton . Warning, it is not a microreview. Why I think you should spend $2.00 postage on this book: "God's Ode to Creation," "The Milk of Human Kindness," are great poems. Here's a sample though of one of my other favorite poems from this collection: "I close my eyes, trying to conjure the warm watery planet, sizzling with lightning bolts, where I darted and turned my somersau...
Feminism, poetry, poetics.