In this latest collection of poetry, Mary Biddinger
longingly delves on that shrinking view through the rear view mirror. A Sunny
Place with Adequate Water is a land we come to inhabit
within the pages of this book, and while there, Biddinger
successfully shares a unique vision that while surreal, seems vaguely familiar
as if we've experienced some of these things and as for the others, we only
wish we had.
The nostalgia of small town America is all here. We see an
old order, but an often reinvented one as well. There is a coin operated apple
pie, and a coin operated engine finds its steam. A Parlor, a diary, a paramour
and a half, so many things relying on coins that buy next to nothing today.
These poems are tidy. The language and the images
Biddinger employs have an old shoe comfort. Yes, including magnets and their unreasonable behaviors and the homeless man with a sign that read PREMIUM.
I've come to both enjoy and respect Biddinger’s writing
and she continues to amaze me. I felt she took some risks with this collection.
I believe they are ones that worked.
This book is an enjoyable read.
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