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Home / home / Challenge and Ambition: Rose Solari Releases new Poetry Reviews for WIRoB

Sep 17 2020

Challenge and Ambition: Rose Solari Releases new Poetry Reviews for WIRoB

Rose Solari's reviews this month focus on four collections that "challenge and stretch the reader’s expectations in terms of content, form, or both."

Four Reviews: Charlotte Pence (Code), Kevin Corcoran (The Republic of Song), Lauren Camp (Took house), Peter Kline (Mirrorforms)

Rose Solari's reviews this month concern books that "challenge and stretch the reader’s expectations in terms of content, form, or both." This includes Charlotte Pence's vitalizing Code with its centerfold poem written entirely in DNA, Kelvin Corcoran's The Republic of Song with its tributes to the scholar and poet Lee Harwood, Lauren Camp's soft poems based on visual artists of the 20th century in Took House, and the singular obsession with form presented in Peter Kline's Mirrorforms.

As always, Rose Solari writes with generosity and specificity when recounting the challenges and triumphs of each work. It is important also to note something unique to her reviews: her ear for the music of poetry. Solari never leaves the reader wanting for descriptions of concord and discord.

Rose Solari's is a monthly poetry review column for the Washington Independent Review of Books. You can find more of her reviews HERE.

Solari, while an excellent reviewer of poetry, is herself a regarded poet. Check out her work HERE.

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