Reviewed by Henry Cherry
In the year of the pandemic, at-home bread baking was king. There’s no denying that. Why would you want to? A nice sour dough loaf can go a long way to knocking down the depression of living in lockdown. But as the endless binge of streaming media went on and on and on, people also returned to poetry, those most tenacious and misunderstood mountains of the written arts range. And so poetry, now, is ready to redeem its seat atop of the great Mount Writing, thriving as theaters and music halls and museums and ballet companies all have been shuttered by the pandemic rampaging across planet. Sometimes a cool couplet of Anne Sexton, Ted Berrigan or Percy Bysshe Shelley is just what the doctor ordered. [Read more…]