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Home / home / “Persuasive” Woman Drinking Absinthe explores “Illicit Love” in New Review from Compulsive Reader

May 04 2021

“Persuasive” Woman Drinking Absinthe explores “Illicit Love” in New Review from Compulsive Reader

Charles Rammelkamp delivers a witty and erudite review of Katherine E. Young's opus.

NEW REVIEW

In his new review of Katherine E. Young's Woman Drinking Absinthe, Charles Rammelkamp delivers a write-up worthy of its subject. With careful erudition, and no lack of wit, he mines Katherine's beautiful and heartbreaking poesy about "illicit love" for words of affirmation.

"Love, indeed, is the overarching theme of this remarkable collection," writes Charles. And he shows how this recurring theme speaks throughout the book, pointing to the "conflict between marriage and desire," in the early poems, the link between "sex and violence" in poems like "Bluebeard," and the "demimonde of women in the midst of affairs of the heart" as in "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" and many others.

In these depictions, Charles writes that, "Woman Drinking Absinthe is unflinchingly honest and lyrical."

Read the entire review here.

Full Review on Compulsivereader.com Buy the Book

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Along the indifferent corridors / of space, angels could be hiding,” Linda Pastan wrote in her poem “Muse.” ASP honors the legacy of Linda Pastan (1932–2023), a former Poet Laureate of Maryland, who passed away last week. Pastan was the author of the 2018 poetry book A Dog Runs Through It, which won the Towson University Literary Award.

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