Reviews for Songs for Discharming

The average rating for Songs for Discharming based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-05 00:00:00 Sean Galelli "and I looked at her scarred knuckles and quivering chin and realized that I had spit in the face of a thousand thousand women and I wept with my mother." from "My Mother and I had a Discussion One Day" These poems touched me--they reflected familiar places in the upper Midwest and reference family and community events that ring very true. Denise Sweet first came to my attention when I was developing the UW-Manitowoc library collection to support its "Spirit of the Rivers" course. It took me a few years of poetry immersion before I could fully appreciate the landscape of these poems. Sweet's interweaving of place and people makes me feel invited in, welcomed. I intend to revisit these poems again and again to learn from them.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-01 00:00:00 Brian Fujimoto The book was brought out by the estate of A.R. Ammons, who died a decade earlier and had left a hefty 150-page manuscript. Why didn't his literary executor leave well enough alone? These pieces read like mere drafts and not highly revised final poems.