Three Chapbooks/Three Poets
February 20, 2024
“Each of these diverse, superbly crafted chapbooks brim with intimacy,” writes Michael Spring, author of dentro do som/into the sound and Kahlo’s Widow. “Moody’s work, written in sevenlings, offers probing, witty, and sometimes dark observations of rural America where “the countryside belongs to the swallows.” Durak’s work, intelligent and introspective, leads us to a fabled crossroads where she contemplates, what is more diligent than dust, and asks, what is “more within you / than your path beyond compass?” Harn’s poems, full of philosophical investigations, claim that “sometimes we need to see the marrow splayed” to understand our place in the universe, that we face our mortality “lips parted, about to say something / to the wind.” Like a jazz trio, each chapbook is a distinct instrument, unique but in sync with the others, and the beat is never lost.”
Flowstone Press, 2024
