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5.0 out of 5 stars
Rosary of Bones a stunner, for all lovers of really good poetry,
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This review is from: Rosary of Bones (Paperback)
Jennifer MacPherson is a poet's poet. if there were any doubt of this, her latest collection, Rosary of Bones, removes that doubt. The poems are fresh in language, imagery, and ideas. The entire collection is much like an actual rosary in its linked notions and the poems find a spiritual place for themselves without being religious or overtly prayerful in a nonsecular way. There is a musical mantra at work here, each poem reverberating with a luminous spark that ponders while it strides out and asks to be recognized. There is a bone to break while there is a bone mended. There is silent prayer and shouted psalm. There is solidarity and solitude. The book is mirror and image in the mirror. "Half the leaves/ lose their quarrel/ with frost and hang/ like yellow rags" (from What Happens in September) describes what each of us must confront: our own mortality. MacPherson helps us to confront and then to celebrate.
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Rosary of Bones by Jennifer B. MacPherson (Paperback - August 1, 2007)
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