A review by zach_collins
Horse and Rider by Melissa Range

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.