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 […]
