Posts Tagged ‘Crystal Hurdle’
Apples and Oranges, Plastic and Screens, Crows on Utility Poles: a review of Fiona Tinwei Lam’s Odes and Laments
Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle Lam’s third poetry collection, Odes and Laments, surprisingly sweet, offers an equal measure of elegies and odes, sometimes in the same poem. The opener, “Libation,” concludes, “What’s held within/this cup, this poem, this juice/I offer you.” The poem could be container or contents, and what does it matter? Everything IS all apples and oranges,…
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