In new collections, poets Kelly Hansen Maher and Heather Derr-Smith write about lives as women, Hansen Maher speaking to the pain of repeated miscarriages and Derr-Smith exploring relationships and female sexuality. Oddly enough (for me, not the poets), as I read these collections, I found myself considering recurring images of end-times.
Perhaps
this isn’t so odd: miscarriages are about endings, accompanied by heartbreak and
pain; and what Derr-Smith describes suggests, in part, the pain land loss of
endings that can be accompanied by violence. Of course, my images of end-times
could be nothing more than reflections of my own anxieties about the
presidential election.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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