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eaholla's review
5.0
I’ve been hoping for another Bruce Snider collection since his last, “Paradise, Indiana” and I am not sorry for the wait. Here, he again proves he is a master of juxtaposition, balancing images of brutality with those of tenderness, the Biblical with the secular, sexual power struggles with familial conflict. The poems in “Fruit” move through time and space — in one, readers are transported to the speaker’s farming childhood, in another to the intimate struggles of adopting as a same-sex couple. Snider leaves no rock unturned, interrogating the masculine passion of schoolyard bullies, a father’s love of guns, and the human impulse of creation. In these poems, he gets to the core questions of existence: What is a life? A death? What, or who, do we carry with us?What do we leave behind?
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