20 Love Poems for 10 Months
In these compressed, weighty poems by Mary Austin Speaker, a deepening romantic relationship finds its echo in the wings of cranes, mushrooms emerging after rain, and a forest floor dense with pine needles. The poems in this chapbook function as indirect metaphors, allowing the relationship itself to stay just off-screen, expansive and mysterious as it might still be to the lovers themselves.
Mary Austin Speaker. 20 Love Poems for 10 Months. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012.
