Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley

Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Poetry is so hard to write about, especially, when, like me, you don't read enough poetry. These poems feel very geological but the terrain is all feelings and memories. The poems are dark, but the terrain is bright. There is a languid feeling about the poems, but the terrain is urgent with extremes of cold and heat. After reading through the collection I felt hollowed out, not in a depressed way, but in the satisfied way I imagine Pinocchio felt after Geppetto made him.

*Lisa Fay Coutley teaches at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writer’s Workshop.

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