Likely the widest variety of form I have seen in a collection. Varied topics. Several "annunciation" poems. Religious stories and news stories and relationships as inspiration. (She uses the word "edge" a lot.)------------------ "Just for this evening, won't you put me before youuntil I'm far enough away you canbelieve in me?" - The Troubadours Etc."From above, you looked smallas an afterthought, something lightly brushed in." - Conversion Figure"This is what it's like to be alive without you here: some fall out of the world. I fall back into what I was. Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.What I want is what I've always wanted. What I want is to be changed." - To Gabriela at the Donkey Sanctuary "Why do the pigeons gather in this tree or that one, why leave one for anotherin this moment or that one, why do I miss you now, but not now my old idea of you, the feeling for you I lostand remade so many times until it was something else, as strange as your touch was familiar." - Too Many Pigeons to Count and One Dove"Soon you'll come down the stairsto tell me something. And I'll say,okay. Okay. I'll say itlike that, say it just likethat, I'll go on beingyour never enough." - To You Again"Out of nothing does not meaninto nothing." - Insertion of Meadow with Flowers A resident of Portland and a teacher at Lewis & Clark college, Szybist portrays the Annunciation as an iconic moment in which the spiritual meets the humane.In one tender poem, Fender's Blue Butterfly intermingles with Kincaid's Lupine plants, portrays some elitist butterflies!"As skull: Fissured, as unlit chandelier".Som pretty good lines here, though the poems do not seem to hang together well.
What do You think about Incarnadine: Poems (2013)?
