The American Dream, once an orgiastic green light, is now a rape kit in the car trunk of a serial killer.
grabs with image and truth, but the anger and despair is beyond my ability to go with the poet.
The poem Inventive, often startlingly fresh, but it casts its imagistic and analagous nets too far and too frantically for me. The poem is bravely angry but jangled. It oveflows its banks.
High Voltage is my favorite of the Chris Banks poems :)
grabs with image and truth, but the anger and despair is beyond my ability to go with the poet.
The poem Inventive, often startlingly fresh, but it casts its imagistic and analagous nets too far and too frantically for me. The poem is bravely angry but jangled. It oveflows its banks.
High Voltage is my favorite of the Chris Banks poems :)