Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions I felt convinced that this

I felt convinced that this book offers the most honest reaction to our current climate crisis — one based in doubt and kindness at the same time

Rose Smith brings Ida’s life slowly into focus as one poem after another exhumes “the rest of the story” and expands beyond a quiet woman’s journey into a place of insight and compassion

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In a poem in which she adopts a lost dog

“All things break and fall against this life

Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions I felt convinced that thisWhen Dobreer comes to the poetry party, she brings her gypsy wagon with her, her vardo, lovingly carved from a life of lan. Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance. And this dance is never stilted or predictable. It only asks the reader to meet its rhythms, the rock and sway, the tango laced eroticism that threads Forbidden Plums. She works an almost cerebral mysticism into the lines as she