Book Review: 'The Oriole & the Ovenbird' by Angela Patten
Angela Patten Vermont poet Cora Brooks (1941-2018) would sometimes begin her public readings with a one-line poem: "Forgive these words they are not birds." While ruing the meagerness of human artifice compared with nature's wonders, in a quietly melodic way Brooks was also offering a bit of birdsong of her own — not only an apology but an emulation. Angela Patten would likely concur, and heartily, with Brooks' sense of fellowship with the feathered ones. Her new chapbook, The Oriole & the Ovenbird, includes 21 poems, with a bird (or several) appe...
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