Tag: Sarah Sarai
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Poetry Review: Sarah Sarai Reads Harsh Realm by Daniel Nester
A poetic navigation through the Nineties, Daniel Nester’s Harsh Realm is a palooza of a collection, nimble of word and beautifully designed. Its poems reveal the moving parts of someone who, it would seem, doesn’t cease movement of geography or vision. While many of the poems are reflective, romantic, revelatory, you know, poemy, the opener, “My…
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“Wish Me Poetry”: Alexis Quinlan on Sarah Sarai’s poetry collection That Strapless Bra in Heaven
It’s the winter of 2020. Despite a life swimming in poetry—despite poems in morning email and poems in backpacks all day, despite poems on “devices,” poems for students, poems at night—I sometimes wonder, What is poetry good for? This is hardly a terrible question. Poetry is like god: if she exists, she can deal with…
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Because What Else Could I Do, the tenth poetry collection by Pitt Poetry Series Author Martha Collins, reviewed by Sarah Sarai
Visually delicate and emotionally substantial, the fifty-five poems in Martha Collins’ tenth collection, Because What Else Could I Do, interrogate the expectation inherent in connection, here, the poet’s with her husband, whose death set up a barrier to comprehension (“as if the fact were a mass of lead”). There is a poetic narrative of discovery…
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