Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Whiskey on the Poetry Foundation Blog
I am humbled and moved and delighted by a review of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden by Rigoberto Gonzalez on the Poetry Foundation's blog Harriet. The Shout Out includes my whole poem, "Another March," then continues:
The value lesson here: it’s not about where one comes from (“Mt. Pleasant, Parsippany,/ Oneonta, Chattanooga”) or even who one is (a transvestite, a rabbi, Muslim from Texas), but about keeping hope and the possibility of change alive.
Read the review here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/wednesday-shout-out-15/
The value lesson here: it’s not about where one comes from (“Mt. Pleasant, Parsippany,/ Oneonta, Chattanooga”) or even who one is (a transvestite, a rabbi, Muslim from Texas), but about keeping hope and the possibility of change alive.
Read the review here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/wednesday-shout-out-15/
