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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sean Lynch, he/him, is a poet and editor who lives in South Philadelphia. His fourth chapbook, On Violence, was published by Radical Paper Press in 2019. Poems have appeared in journals including Hobart, Poetry Quarterly, and After the Pause. He is the founding editor of Serotonin.
Ric Flair Feminism: A Micro Review of Marrow by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Marrow
by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Thirty West Publishing, 2019
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella’s poetry chapbook Marrow, released in conjunction with the author’s prose collection, Better Bones, in 2019 by Thirty West Publishing, is a gilded Schrodinger’s cat box of joy and sorrow compressed into tiny book form. The graceful and gorgeous illustrations by Elizabeth Bergland emphasize Cannarella’s unique ability of being able to extract elaborate feelings from minimalist language, like in the short piece “The Whole Sky,” where division of the self is reflected in nature’s largest mirror.
Cannarella, too, can find humor in the horror of existential angst, from fear of flying, to the thrill of hearing Ric Flair scream (a delightful childhood reminder of the author requesting her mother’s playful banshee screams), which are, “the kinds of sounds that curdle but delight.” This inspires Cannarella to hope, “that more women / would start screaming just to upset people.” Only Jane-Rebecca Cannarella could write a Ric Flair poem that’s also a feminist masterpiece.
Then there’s the poem “Hound,” which is an elegy that will devastate any reader who has watched a beloved pet deteriorate from old age and die. The point of poetry chapbooks is to give the reader a quick yet meaningful experience that will hopefully be returned to often, and Marrow does just that with its profundity and beauty.
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