This poem is written from the perspective of a woman who has internalized her husband’s abuse as she tries to resource herself to survive it. Its action (or inaction) takes place on the final solstice they will spend together under the same roof, and the ice fog is both a metaphor and a literal correspondence.
Joan Naviyuk Kane on "I Defer a Second Opinion" |
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M. Soledad Caballero on Life in Translation
"Her first poetry collection—I Was a Bell, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award—explores personal and historical memory and her experiences as an immigrant and cancer survivor....Caballero’s writing is conversational yet lyrical, mixing English and Spanish, its short sentences holding vast amounts of beauty and pain."
via TUFTS NOW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on Joy Priest's Horsepower
"Her poetic line stretches out like a horizon barely visible over the steering wheel. Of course, if you've never burned a tank of gas, cross-hatching city streets on a late spring Sunday afternoon, braiding the voices of Al Green or Smokey Robinson through the ribbons of heat rising from the asphalt, this book is an invitation to joyride." |
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