Glorious: Poems

Joan Cusack Handler. CavanKerry Press, $14 (106pp) ISBN 978-0-9707186-4-8

Co-founder and publisher of CavanKerry press, Joan Cusack Handler is a member of the resident faculty at The Robert Frost Place and sits on the board of governors of the Poetry Society of America. Glorious, her debut, reads like an open field verse bildungsroman of adulthood, taking the alternately first- and third-person protagonist from ""bitching as I do about your selfishness"" to ""Inviting that cypress/ to watch the sun rise/ on the Hudson.""

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