Road Scatter
Sandra Meek
Persea Books
277 Broadway, Suite
708
New York, NY 10007
9780892554195, $15.95,
www.perseabooks.com
Wanderlust allows us to see many things about our life. "Road Scatter" is a collection of poetry from Sandra Meek as she touches on the nature of travel and how loss can change places we've already been. "Road Scatter" is an enticing and much recommended addition to contemporary poetry collections. "Colony of Ice": We struck south to recall winter/as grace, sky no longer constellating//the permanent frost of a country's/baroque sadness, no longer a crystalline breath//purled to whitecaps' lace, froth at the mouth/of the dog wandering the village the morning//that would end her, arrival our single shot/skidding her eyes to that milky glaze//heralding snow, rainforest and thorn desert/gnawed to one echo, a tiny listening//rippling the single sheet we kept unfolding, the white stare of home.
--Midwest Book Review/Wisconsin Bookwatch 7:10 (October 2012)
Sandra Meek
Persea Books
277 Broadway, Suite
708
New York, NY 10007
9780892554195, $15.95,
www.perseabooks.com
Wanderlust allows us to see many things about our life. "Road Scatter" is a collection of poetry from Sandra Meek as she touches on the nature of travel and how loss can change places we've already been. "Road Scatter" is an enticing and much recommended addition to contemporary poetry collections. "Colony of Ice": We struck south to recall winter/as grace, sky no longer constellating//the permanent frost of a country's/baroque sadness, no longer a crystalline breath//purled to whitecaps' lace, froth at the mouth/of the dog wandering the village the morning//that would end her, arrival our single shot/skidding her eyes to that milky glaze//heralding snow, rainforest and thorn desert/gnawed to one echo, a tiny listening//rippling the single sheet we kept unfolding, the white stare of home.
--Midwest Book Review/Wisconsin Bookwatch 7:10 (October 2012)