by Andrew Merton | Oct 22, 2018
A Gathering of Larks by Abigail Carroll William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2017. In “Genesis (I),” the opening poem of Habitation of Wonder, the Vermont poet Abigail Carroll reimagines the Creation: We read the Word spoke forth creation, but I’m...
by Andrew Merton | Apr 13, 2016
Bona Fide Press. 2015. 88 pp. The final line of Julia Shipley’s bio in her magical book of poems, The Academy of Hay, reads, “She is married to one man and six acres in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.” In several of these poems, man and acreage seem to merge in often...