NEW Review of Lauren Gordon's Fiddle Is Flood (Blood Pudding Press, 2015) at Galatea Resurrects

Those who have followed the Little House books and Ingalls family history will be aware of the deep losses sustained by the family on the prairie, and Gordon certainly doesn’t skirt over these sadnesses. In the first poem in the collection we learn that “Baby Freddie” “straightened out his little // body and was dead,” and later we are reminded that sister Mary “has stupid eyes, too.” We read about miscarriages, “tiny graves in cellars,” and Gordon adds new perspectives, emphasizing that “the old Indian” “has a name had a name once.”

from a NEW mini-review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon, at Galatea Resurrects (thank you to Genevieve Kaplan)
More here - http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/chapbooks-by-lauren-gordon-marco.html

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