Mockingbird (Derek Webster)

Derek Webster's Mockingbird examines a death of another sort, with many of the poems tracing the aftermath of a failed marriage. Even vaguer poems, that don't seem to address this issue, feel loaded against its backdrop: "Libraries burn. / What we thought would last is gone." However, the best poems call up other poets — [...]

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