Poetry.
Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss..
But regardless of the subject, Kim Addonizio\'s poems are stark mirrors of self-examination, and she looks into them without blinking -- Billy Collins.
Many of the poems in Tell ME can be read as intensified versions of the barroom ballad -- songs of good and bad love, songs of the allure and the failure of drink.
Addonizio writes of herself, her passions and predicaments, without ever seeming \'confessional\' or narcissistic, because what she relates is true of all mankind -- especially womankind -- Carolyn Kizer.
Poetry