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A Book Review of Thin Skin

What does well written poetry tell us about this author? Drew Myron bravely confronts the sadness of her past so that we can discover the happiness of her present life. Does the sadness of the past peel away like weather worn paint? Does our skin thicken or harden as we age? Do we become wiser when we confront our past?

I permit poetry to disturb me, so that I will stir – and move away from darkness to the light. Drew Myron shares her discoveries and her wisdom. Then she shares her happiness through her powerful poetry.

Push Pull Books. 2013. 99 pages.

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A Book Review of Lifeboat

Lifeboat is Catharine Clark-Sayles’ second book of poetry.

This book itself is a lifeboat. Poetry does its best when it prevents a person from drowning in a sea of uncertainty and doubt. Poetry well wrtten changes us forever. This book is full of the poetry of purpose.

Tebot Bach. 2012. 62 pages.

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A Book Review of Kaleidoscope

Tina Barr’s Kaleidoscope is a round tube of truth that I hold towards the light. Disruptive and colorful images that I might not want to view – but so well composed that my eye is brought forward to the edge again. And again, to the truth. Disruptive truth.

Iris Press. 2015. 84 pages.

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A book review of Heartwood

There is deep magic in Cristel Orrand’s Heartwood. The book is broken into two parts. Poetry and Prose. The prose is fiction that reads like memoir. It makes me want to sit down with Cristel, drink coffee, and hear more. Her poetry makes me listen because she understands both the nature of man, and the nature of nature. The book is broken into two parts. Both parts are heartwood.

Amalgamist Books. 2017. 69 pages.

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A book review of Hugging This Rock

Eric Chandler is a former F-16 fighter pilot. He endured three deployments to Iraq and one deployment to Afghanistan.  Eric offers us that higher view of our earth bound lives. His gift of focusing on what is important to know, what is best to ignore, and what is important to share, is given to us poem by poem. This is Eric Chandler’s first book of poetry.  Bravo Zulu.

Middle West Press LLC. 2017. 106 pages.