What I’m Reading: “This City” by Jennifer Compton
Jul
22
2015
Recently, I purchased a copy of This City (Otago University Press, 2010), the Kathleen Grattan Award-winning book of poetry by my fellow Tuesday Poet, Jennifer Compton.
And it is wonderful, dear readers.
I am blown away by the emotional depth and integrity of the poems, and the beauty of lines like:
“Like breathing out forever, we announce our imminent absence.”
and
“…The stink of success and their prowess evaporates,
diffuses like a mist, a heady, foxy, delicious, momentary thing.
They stand easy, the whisper of the cloth that folds them sings.”
I am so looking forward to reading MOAR!
