Sorry, Tree

Sorry, TreeBy Eileen Myles Description Reviews I like therapy because I don't need my glasses I can sit there naked like the animal I am a beautiful honest animal Sexy, cool and uncompromising, Myles trademark punk sensibility and intimate knowledge of poetic tradition are at work in this eighth collection where every love poem is political and every political poem is, ultimately, about love. Sorry, Tree secures Myles eminence as Americas most fearless poet. I

but rather that the political is an unavoidable engagement art must make

ISBN# 9781940696515 (5

of rebellions against incendiary government-sponsored thinking—is a must-read

Dorothea Lasky channels her electric writing into an examination of creativity and motherhood

a society is exposed—racist

The poet’s mutable-but-tonally-consistent speaker narrates from the moments between the moments

O'Brien's meditative poems -- both lyric and lapidary -- interrogate the forces that press us into patterns we don't recognize

Gladman is my dream writer

from the other side

” Her hybrid style blends prose and verve into one urban stream

the physical self is a gift

Important for serious poetry readers and collections capturing poetry's history