ASIN: B007RICK0G
Publisher: FutureCycle Press
Pages: 86
In her first full-length volume of poetry, Amy Riddell has given us a true crime story, that of her Bluebeard-like father who went to prison for trying to murder his wife. From her attempts to understand her father’s odd brutalities (and love) to her own hard-won transcendence later in life, these poems offer tacit touchstones to healing what is wounded in all of us."Why do some poems, on rare occasions, offer themselves as being absolutely necessary for their author to have created them? In the first two sections of this book, the scenes of brutality expressed in the poems are Amy Riddell’s attempt to interpret the crimes portrayed and their victims. The poems only become that more effective because of the tough and hard fought transcendence that the last section of poems in this book offers.... If readers seek a Jungian interpretation of Amy Riddell's courageous and resilient poems ...
