Reviews for Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems

The average rating for Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-18 00:00:00 Brandy Lauder A wonderful collection of poetry with a strangely ugly cover. But let's go straight to the poems. Okay, just one: Wallowing When old Nell rolled in the bins hollowed out of the pasture flats, she whinnied with the pleasure as one ripened area of skin after another whetted the firm ground, shuddered and twisted to reach itches on withers and rump. She seemed more like a snake or worm there on her back, often pulsing in coital shiver like an amoeba. I knew she scrubbed off fly eggs, dung, dried blood from bites, in the rasp of sand, the emery submersion salving harness galls and currying off sweat, massaging the soreness of age. Finding still neglected precincts she'd press them with a snort to dry grass at the lip of the wallow, stoking at frisking hair roots and getting down into the trough generate with friction a field of brushed nerves. She indulged a third of her hide at once to the bump and tickle, running with the pasture on her back. She thrashed the late summer dust in a whirlpool, then stood and shook herself of the dry cloud and, smoking pure and free as if new-born in the depression, stepped onto the wide pasture.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-19 00:00:00 Dwayne Coleman Favorites: Under Cover: "Something in the blood says don't violate the poise of wood and wild, don't insult with words this place where every bush may hide an ambush..." Honey: "If you go near bees every day they will know you... No bee full of sweetness wants to sting."