Due to having a generous mention in
the acknowledgements section of Richie McCaffery’s third full collection, Summer
/ Break (Shoestring Press, 2022) and having kept up a long-distance,
email-based friendship with him over several years, I don’t feel I can review his
new book with any degree of independence or objectivity.
However, suffice to say, Summer /
Break is an excellent example of the poetry I enjoy reading. Apparent
simplicity, delicious poetic leaps and achingly resonant object-led poems have
long been McCaffery’s trademarks, but his recent personal upheaval seems only
to have driven him further and deeper in a quest to find the means of
expressing and transforming extreme emotions. Completely and utterly
recommended!
The “Waste Land” is Eliot’s and in “Miniskirts in the Waste Land” the
poems’ speaker takes readers back to the late 1960s/early 1970s and being a
student, ...
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