Sketch Book Reviews: Ardor

Panel 1: ARDOR by Alyse Knorr is a collection of poetry that transports the reader through the wilds of Alaska and Colorado and to the deep American South. Panel 2: About ecology and the land, love and motherhood, the collection provides a vision to the future for our fractured world. Panel 3: Knorr does what I love most about poetry collections: makes a variety of forms and artifact. Panel 4: Readers can feel that they have something very special and unique in their hands. Gasher Press' unique and beautiful interior layout enhances that feeling. Panel 5: While many pages are dog-eared, many lines underlines and starred, among my favorites in the collection is alternative telling of the old year. Panel 6: The poem is exemplary of Knorr's careful precision in constructing a poem. Yet it (nor any other poems) never feels like it's trying too hard or is "in poetry voice" pretentious. I know that the collection is one that I'll come back to again, particularly when I could use a little hope for our world.
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Kateri Kramer is a writer, illustrator, and book designer from Colorado. She has an MFA in creative writing from the Mile High MFA at Regis University. Her writing has been published in Axon Creative Explorations, Barren Magazine, and 5x5, among others. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, fly fishing, rock climbing, ceramics, and art. Her art and writing can be found at www.katerikramer.com or on Instagram at @OscarWildeKat.

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