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.

SHARE

IG

FB

BSKY

TH