“Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power struggles between women and men, black and white. Brown’s position in this history, as a young white girl, puts her in the center of these struggles, a privileged victim aware of both her power and its limits.”
Rumpus Poetry editor Brian Spears reviews Stacey Lynn Brown’s Cradle Song.