Jeri Kroll

Philip Salom’s tenth collection of poems offers readers an experience akin to falling over the edge of a well into a frightening subterranean world. The Well Mouth is dark, allusive, ironic, brutal, perplexing and confronting, and so it can be alternately rewarding and irritating. Readers should not miss the explanatory paragraph before the prologue; otherwise they risk being as disoriented as t ... (read more)

1 Some day maybe I’ll catch them. Across the quivering lake they float, a trio of indistinct shapes, but they are swans, that much I know. ... (read more)