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What Ed Bennett wrote:
Ms. Stangeland's poetry is superb. She uses everyday language to create crystalline images
that occur in her poems like diamonds on a beach…
Many of the poems are written in short, two line strophes with declarative sentences. In the
hands of a lesser talent this would become boring and the reader would lose interest.


Caught
by Joannie Stangeland

Moth wings pinned on a card
above the name. Flight

halted in a net. The dog Friday barks.
Outside, clouds patch the sky.

She slips in and out of the day.
Her chest is a sun, burning.
She slips in and out of the night.
Her dreams unfold in flames.

The ladybird has flown home.
Her children are safe.

Only her chest is on fire.
Her daughters tend her.

From Into the Rumored Spring, Ravenna Press.)



Ed's full review can be viewed here:

http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2012/Bookreview.html .html

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