THE UNEATEN CARROTS OF ATONEMENT

Diane Lockward exemplifies Garcia Lorca's definition of poet as the professor of the five bodily senses. She revels in sensory language and can make terror and loss as spine-tingling as the beauty of a last stab of sunset. With her cryptic title, she invites us to join her in a poetic banquet where we are seduced by the “Red of the raspberry, its drupelets a nest of sexual seeds, / and the music, pepper hot and red,” and challenged by the never-ending unwinding of her interior landscape seeking its exterior expression in the physical world around her. Make no mistake, though, the artistic weaving in these poems is tough as knots that “hold their weight, that won't come undone.” This book is a feast to which Garcia Lorca himself would give a five-star rating.  
          —Kathryn Stripling Byer, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005-2009 

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Reviews:
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by Tami Haaland

Better View of the Moon
by Karen Craigo

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

by David P. Miller

The Mom Egg Review
by Carole Mertz

Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
by Sherry Chandler

Satire on the Menu
by Zara Raab

Tweetspeak
by Glynn Young

Valparaiso Poetry Review
by Patricia Valdata

Washington Independent Review of Books  
by Grace Cavalieri


Interviews:
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