The Palace of Forty Pillars is a moving book as well as an elegant one
while they assent to the seasons developing of our landscapes and the beauty and dangers of our place in creation
I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena Godden
Both Bernadette Mayer and the ancient Greek poet Hesiod would surely admire the insouciant but deeply attentive voice of these Works and Days
"Poems is a vast slab of a thing
The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett Ross Cogan The Palace of Forty PillarsPublished 28th April 2025. Self and history collide, selves fracture, the flag is divided, monuments collapse. In her sixth collection, Sarah Corbett considers the fragments we might hold against dissolution, whether personal, national, or global. Midnight in Leningrad, 1940, Anna Akhmatova waits for a poem to arrive, in her hand an egg; on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a writer recalls her breakdown as a student in 1989. In the