Reviewed by Marianne Cotugno Robin Becker’s Midsummer Count gathers new work alongside poems selected from eight full-length collections, including All-American Girl (1996), winner of
Review by Donna Vorreyer “the heart would rather be left alone in its cavity, just the heart and its pericardium, alone, multilayered…” In The
Turn on this book instead of the 9 o’clock news. Eat it for breakfast until so satiated with poetry it stains your brain, leaks
A Southern African-American poet has just published a work of radical literary integration. It storms the last bastion of dead-white-guy literature, the “whites only”