The Meadow by Kristin Garth / APEP Publications / 2020 Towards the end of Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 sonnets, the reader is introduced to a character known as the Dark Lady who plays a complicated role for Shakespeare’s speaker; she is at once the speaker’s sexually-alluring mistress and the tormentor/temptor of his soul, taking up enough space in his head to be the … [Read more...]
Scorpio by Katy Bohinc, reviewed by Tom Snarsky
Scorpio by Katy Bohinc / Miami University Press / 978-1881163633 / paperback / 71 pages / 2018 ...I still believe it starts with you and me (from “Hung Out”) I remember when I was young, maybe just having cracked double digits in age, listening to CDs using a handheld CD player with wraparound headphones. It was an unwieldy thing that skipped or went soundless … [Read more...]
