April Reviewed by Michael Martin Shea
"April thus extends Nicholson's affinity for the coyly rhetorical, already on display in her previous two books. Her newest collection picks up the project of What The Lyric Is (2016), where poetry is characterized as 'a record of the attempt / To keep up with the mind. A forest for our / Thoughts to sit in.' Indeed, Nicholson is more interested in the spaces thought can open up than in the content of thought itself."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nica Giromini on Language as Form
"What drew me to terza rima in particular is the tension, or rather disagreement, manufactured by its braided structure of rhymes. Because each stanza is interconnected with both the following and the former, the borders of the unit of the stanza start to fray. And a productive tension—one parallel to that of the competing units of sense of the line and the sentence—emerges between the units of sense of the stanza and of the poem (across stanzas)." |
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