Poetry Can Be Good…Who Knew?
Let me begin by saying that I don’t usually read poetry. Well, e.e.cummings and Shakespeare, but that’s about it. Most modern poetry usually takes me back to those painful nights in college when I would go and sit in our campus coffee house and listen to my boyfriend and others read their work aloud in an environment where no one could get up and leave and where no one could throw things when the poetry was bad, which was often.
Right Lane Ends is not that kind of poetry.
Alice Osborn’s poetry crosses through her own memories while invoking my own childhood with her clear-eyed imagery. Her words turn pain into lyricism, where the pain is not mitigated or hidden, but is distilled into unflinching truth. Her poetry explores her family, her child, her parents, a lost lover, touching what we all feel, what we all experience, making her specific truth universal.
I usually do not read poetry, but I am waiting for Alice Osborn’s volume two.
Since I think you should read it, too, you can get Right Lane Ends on the following websites:
Visit www.aliceosborn.com or click on www.http://store.catawbapublishing.com/
I’m telling you, even if you never read poetry, or haven’t since high school, read Alice Osborn’s. You won’t regret it.
