The first thing you notice about the poems of Quadrilateral: Utterances by David Russell is the language. It is a language of word pictures and images that cascade one after the other in a virtual torrent of imagination.
The first poem, “Hard Times of Old England,” is the first of 47 poems and is a good example. It’s a poem about Brexit, and you think, oh, no, more politics. And it is political. But it presents images of trucks choking ports as they crowd to gain entry, rotting fish, services straining for workers, and a government content to bumble its way through. Russell floods the reader’s mind with pictures that, regardless of what you might think about Brexit, force you to confront what it means.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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