Reviews for Crash's Law

The average rating for Crash's Law based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-27 00:00:00 Krzysztof Rekas The epigraph by Dickinson is quite fitting for Crash's Law. The poems contain punctuation reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's as well as similar striking images. They also have a lot of allusion to myth in a very accessible way. The drawback of cliche titles and some stale imagery took away from some of the richness. Then I got to "Persephone At Home" and fell in love with the rest of the collection. Volkman writes, "I straddle / my killer, my captor, my grief, my bane / and tear and take / the torn lip, the raked neck, the aching thighs, / that will remind me / through the long black morning / I am alive." If you're not shivering, you need to read that over and over until you get the courage behind it.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-10-06 00:00:00 James Morrison The pointedness of these poems was pleasing, taking me into a deeper, undiscernable place. But I'm not sure I was able to surface from the poem with a solid sense of where they had taken me. Perhaps I am trying to gauge how much they invite me back for further consideration.