by Barbara Hoffert
Jan 17, 2020
Place: As important in poetry as in prose, place figures largely in John Freeman’s The Park (Copper Canyon, May), which visits Paris’s Luxembourg Gardens over four seasons, the better to understand public space, human interaction, and who gets what in our cultural moment. And Rift Zone (Red Hen, Apr.), from NPR online poetry reviewer Tess Taylor, recaptures her California hometown, smack on the shuddery Hayward fault in an arena recalling Spanish settlement and Japanese interment.