Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum\'s third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as the ocean on a shiny day, and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson\'s herbarium might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists. / be the call and response of all people living on the earth? A descendant of the New York school and the second wave, Greenbaum spills details that she simultaneously replaces-through the spiraling revelations only Poems with an authentic life-force of humanism can nurture.. . .
In the everyday tally of the good against the violence the speaker asks, why can\'t the line around the block on the free night/ at the museum stand for everything, why can\'t the shriek /of the girls in summer waves .
At heart, the Poems themselves seek peace through close observation\'s associative power to reveal cohering relationships and meaning within the 21st century-and during its dark turn.
Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum\'s third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as the ocean on a shiny day, and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson\'s herbarium might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists
