Bookslut Reviews Trees of the Twentieth Century

Bookslut’s review of Trees of the Twentieth Century opens with some well-deserved praise:

This is what poetry is supposed to feel like; that is my strongest impression of Trees of the Twentieth Century. Poetry should be written toward the “unlanguageable,” about the invisible, seeking the impossible through ideas too abstract, complex, and paradoxical to be contained in the structures of prose. If poetry is candid, it is candid about the concealed. If poetry is obvious, it is obvious about the contradictions of life. If poetry is direct, it is direct about the confusions of consciousness. Works like this should be the baseline of American poetry, the starting point on the path to whatever is next.

Must say it is satisfying to see Sturgeon’s work get the recognition it deserves. Read the full review at Bookslut and visit Dark Sky Books to check out the Trees of the Twentieth Century book page.