Beth Copeland’s I Ask the Mountain to Heal My Heart, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Beth Copeland I Ask the Mountain to Heal My Heart Redhawk Publications Reviewer: David E. Poston The mountains of North Carolina and the southern Appalachians—even as their character and traditions are being eclipsed by development and battered by climate change—have been a perennial source of inspiration for writers of every genre, perhaps poets most of […]
Beth Copeland’s Blue Honey, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Beth Copeland Blue Honey The Broadkill River Press Reviewer: Cindy Hochman In Beth Copeland’s award-winning collection Blue Honey, the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, hovers protectively, safeguarding the poet’s own recollection as she documents her parents’ progressively dwindling recall. Told in narratives that are both straightforward and imaginative (many of them in couplet form, as […]
Beth Copeland – Explication
Explication Unaware of his loss until a warm day when he wears shorts above a black titanium leg, I see him step onto a field of poppies or stumble upon a bomb outside of Basra, a limb blasted to bits. I try not to look, but my eye returns to the prosthesis beneath his desk […]
