Reviews

At the Gate by Martha Rhodes

snowmaiden's review

5.0

These poems all have stories in them, but they are not narrative poems. The reader is forced to put the pieces together and figure out what each speaker is talking about. Usually I got there in the end, which means that they are doing their job. The other remarkable thing about these poems is the driving intensity and rhythm so many of them share.

lesbrarycard's review

4.75

 

“Show her you’ve discovered 

all her holy spots 

 

and watch her try to find another, 

deeper forest. Everything she’s kept from you 

is yours now: these frilly private things, 

this tiny book of screams.”