Maggie Butt

I read this after winning it from a Goodreads Giveaway. I enjoyed reading this collection of poems, however I feel like the unifying theme of the collection is lacking. When I say this, I think of Rose McLarney's collection, "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains." While particular collection has a solid theme of fences, barns, and livestock, it still fulfills the goal of being about a large variety of what life brings us. In "Degrees of Twilight" I didn't find this. The poems were unique and beautiful, but going from one to the next felt like I was changing the collection of work many times so while I'll enjoy reading the poems from time, I don't see this being a favorite poet of mine yet. Maybe with time, who knows? There's always room to grow for any writer.… (lisätietoja)