As mentioned in my last post, I’m going to be posting reviews of Gloss every week to try and make up for, well, basically not doing that at all this last year.
This is from Kristina Marie Darling’s fantastic double review over at the LA Review of Books. She takes a look at my book, Gloss, and Traci Brimhall’s book, Saudade, though the lens of feminism and silence. One of the bests gifts as a writer is to receive a review that really gets you — and Darling does. Plus, by pairing me with Traci, one of my favorite poets, she puts me in great company.
We witness Brimhall and Hazelton inhabiting the familiar couplets, tercets, and quatrains of an inherited artistic tradition, yet creating a provocative reversal of power from within their well-trodden structures. As each book unfolds, the forms which we’ve come to know are made suddenly and wonderfully strange by a careful, intentional, and disruptive withholding of narrative context.
For the full review, go here!