Mother Was a Sweater Girl

In Mother was a Sweater Girl Yvonne Morris serves up enticing slices of contemporary life. Whether her subject is a cowboy in a bar, a groom at a wedding, a dream of Vienna, a memory of her sweater-girl mother, or a nervy stranger in the back of a Pinto, in all these vivid, free-verse poems Morris infuses sensuality, imagination, and verve. Typical is the character who "gathers men like / ready berries" and "makes wine from their tears." In poem after distinctive poem Morris whets the reader's appetite for more. --Matt Brennan