Tag: Tasha Cotter

  • Poetry Review: Shaun Turner Reads Tasha Cotter’s Girl in the Cave

    Poetry Review: Shaun Turner Reads Tasha Cotter’s Girl in the Cave

    In her “The Glass Essay,” Anne Carson’s speaker “… lives on a moor in the north. / She lives alone. / Spring opens like a blade there” on the moor, and Carson’s speaker explores the relationships between place, time, and all that makes us. In “The Glass Essay,” the speaker’s mother is also a blade…

  • Some Churches, poetry by Tasha Cotter, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt

    Some Churches, poetry by Tasha Cotter, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt

    A fertile confusion punctuates contemporary English via the language’s conflation of second person singular and plural. The best we get is the contraction, ‘y’all.’ On top of that, we use ‘you’ as hypothetical, or normative, what you might do or rather what one might do were you—I mean, one—in a situation. On occasions where the…