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zach_collins's review against another edition
5.0
I wouldn't be surprised if Melissa Range becomes one of our new premier poets. With her first book, Horse and Rider, she has offered some of the best poetry I have ever read. The world that Range constructs is a world hewn from blood and sinew, where the horse and rider gallop past weapons with stories to tell and young maids sing songs of dead warriors, and though there is death, there is the chance of life, of redemptiton and renewal, a noose refashioned into a child's swing, a canary's silence serving as an alarm and an apocalyptic vision subtly morphs into a decleration of love. Wonderful, alarming, beautiful.
whatsreadallover's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Melissa Range is a master of form, rhythm, and allusion. Both Horse and Writer and her second collection, Scriptorium, are my favorite poetry collections I have ever read. She is inventive and reflective, and her poems stick with you.
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