Friday Pick: Sarah Lang’s “For Tamara”
For Tamara
by Sarah Lang
House of Anansi
104 pages
Sarah Lang’s second book of poetry, For Tamara, is an utterly compelling...
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Friday Pick: 1996 by Sara Peters
Sara Peters’ "1996" (House of Anansi) is a debut so fully realized it is hard to believe that it is the poet’s first. Peters, a rising star in Canadian poetry, establishes a voice that is distinctly her own. With freshness and maturity, 1996 carries the reader through subjects that are, in Robert Pinsky’s words, “deeper than mere darkness.”
Friday Pick: All of You on the Good Earth by Ernest Hilbert
It is refreshing to read poetry that doesn't have to bullshit about what it is. Hilbert can write a sonnet that sounds so natural - and so casually American - that heard aloud, one might not even recognize it for what it is. Or rather, one would recognize it for exactly what it is: great poetry.