![]() ![]() No wonder these same poets describe an unburdening, a freer hand that enters to write their second and third books. To hear some established poets tell it, their first books often encompass their earliest fumbles and stumbles, experiments, imitations, MFA assignments, and poems they think they should be writing. It is as if the formative early years of childhood were knit together to tell one story. For many contemporary poets, the first book holds poems written over years and representing different phases in their lives. Alice James Books, 2013, 80 pages.įIRST BOOKS OF POETRY CAN BE VIEWED AS THEIR OWN GENRE, marking a coming out, often after years of rough drafts, revisions, second-guessing, wild insecurities, honing, re-ordering, re-titling. Stahlecker Selections, Four Way, 2013, 84 pages Viral, by Suzanne Parker. ![]() ![]() Reviewed in this Essay: She Has a Name, by Kamilah Aisha Moon. Two Debut Poetry Books by Women by Janlori Goldman From the Winter 2013-2014 issue of Jewish Currents ![]()
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