My review of Gina Myers' A MODEL YEAR

is now up in the October issue of Open Letters Monthly. Here's an excerpt:

A devoted elegist throughout A Model Year, Myers knows that the simple act of placing a real object in a poem becomes an elegiac act, one that evokes that thing upon each reading while marking its disappearance in the real world. In the elegists of the micro (Williams, Berrigan) and macro (Kafka, Rilke), Myers finds solace and poetic company. Their words, too, become the stuff of this world. 

Read the rest here, and buy A Model Year from Coconut Books!