Rain

RainBy Jon Woodward Description Reviews Relying on youthful sincerity rather than nostalgic rumination, Woodward's second collection is sweet, sharp, and honest. Energetic interlinked poems describe the daily and sometimes surprisingly routine nature of sorrow, as a series of short lyric bursts give form to a story of loss, sadness, and recovery. Winner of the 2005 Verse Prize, selected by the Verse Press Editorial Board In his second book, Rain, Jon

zig-zag jerking into darkness or light

and that bell rings with impressive tonal and melodic versality throughout her work

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The text is suspenseful and engaging

In the collection

It was danger

This is when you think you are earning a freedom from self-disgust through busy-work

Wier’s surreal is a clearer mirror than most straight-on descriptions or linear narrative

asserting themselves physically in the world with a wisdom that is somehow simultaneously novel and ancient

vividly transformed

“A note in the form of a kiss passed / through the barricades

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