Literary reviews by Tim Love.
Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale for details.

Saturday, 3 December 2022

"The students of snow" by Jane Flanders (University of Massachusetts Press, 1982)

Poems from Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Poetry, etc.

"The students of snow", "Moss" and "Twig" (which ends with "In the wind an old oak/ shakes its twigs/ like a stag at mating time") are "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" poems. All of them are ok.

I like how "The Scholar's Stone Garden ends - Who can say a stone has come to naught?/ That it will not flower/ after centuries of silence?

"Magic" is my favourite. "Your name is Greek" and "Special friends" aren't.

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