Archive for the ‘Book Review’ Category

book review: Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Originally published at Dusie.

Tinderbox Lawn

Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess

Prose poems by Carol Guess, Rosemetal Press, 2008

Tinderbox Lawn lives in the hugeness of small moments, the hazards of love, and the fierceness of the mundane. It is the place you find yourself when you step past secrecy into façade, displaying photos of your brother instead of admitting your love. A place where sex and chores blur – where it’s a given that your body is commodity, but getting paid for it is punishable by death and dumping in the river.
(more…)