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Rebecca Foust's Mom's Canoe is quite different from the other books that I've read lately. The forms are orderly with crisp stanzas standing out on the page, and the poems are narratives, telling personal stories that are both clear and set in a certain place, the Alleghenies. They have a nature feel, but the world they describe is one where people work hard if they can find work and just try to get by.
His cottage down in the Cove
--mildew and wild roses,
thick vines choking
everything, outhouse,
grid bridge over sludge,
what once was a river.
It's a short but enjoyable read and perhaps is the only poetry book that I know dealing with the Alleghenies.
Rebecca Foust's Mom's Canoe is quite different from the other books that I've read lately. The forms are orderly with crisp stanzas standing out on the page, and the poems are narratives, telling personal stories that are both clear and set in a certain place, the Alleghenies. They have a nature feel, but the world they describe is one where people work hard if they can find work and just try to get by.
His cottage down in the Cove
--mildew and wild roses,
thick vines choking
everything, outhouse,
grid bridge over sludge,
what once was a river.
It's a short but enjoyable read and perhaps is the only poetry book that I know dealing with the Alleghenies.
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