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Reviews:
Rachel Contreni Flynn - "I found this
collection to be a deeply moving, powerful
collection of poems driven by language that
doesn't spare a word while riveting the reader
with its fresh imagery. The poems here manage to
be succinct, yet lush, a difficult combination,
to be sure. The work is surprising at every
turn, for both its wit and its heartbreak.
Ultimately, the poems deal in excruciating
honesty with loss in a voice that pulls no
punches while creating loveliness. That is also
difficult, and these poems seem to effortlessly
accomplish the task. Here, the natural world
confronts modern reality, just as the hopeful
soul must contemplate and come to terms with
life-altering circumstances. I read these poems
laughing and nodding, saddened and nodding, all
the while appreciating their simplicity and in
love with their complexity."
Matthew Gavin Frank, author of Sagittarius
Agitprop and Barolo -
"Broken Plums is the stuff of mouths and of
voluptuous disguise, the rubber masks filled
with the winking brilliance of erotic threat.
These are poems that inspire endless riffs on
the laws of motion. Delighted and disoriented,
we never know what to expect at the end of a
Brinson poem. This is a stunning and -even
better- audacious debut."Katie
Cappello - "Meghan Brinson's words are
haunted by negative space - - yellow flesh
revealed by a plum's broken skin, spaces of air
in a poorly made nest -- by things we are not
supposed to see, but once seen, we cannot
forget. The poems in this volume are as
dangerous and sexy as a horse gone wild. Brinson
is defiantly
vulnerable in her vision and intensely brave in
her telling."
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