Uplands
Five Islands Press $21.95 pb, 95 pp
Poetry
Janet Upcher reviews "Uplands" by Louise Crisp
by Janet Upcher •
Ecopoetics is tricky terrain which, in these poems of ‘forest and water’, Louise Crisp encounters sometimes with agility, sometimes faltering. Perhaps that’s intended.
The cumulative effect of this collection is one of an overland trek, gradually ascending from ‘poisonous lowlands’ to the harsher, restorative air of ‘uplands’.
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