Dog Watch
Valerie Lawson
Ragged Sky
270 Griggs Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540
9781933974019, $10.00
Valerie Lawson makes her solo poetry debut in "Dog
Watch", a labor of intensive love from a poet who put hours upon
hours into this anthology, and has won awards from the Cambridge Poetry
Awards, Best Poetry Troupe from Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Show,
and has traveled to Europe to study and improve her craft, and all of
this shows in her anthology "Dog Watch". Vivid, lucid imagery
jumps off every page and strikes you with it's wonderful, lyrical
verse. Highly recommended to poetry lovers everywhere, "Dog
Watch" should find itself alongside all great contemporary poetry
collections. Groundhog Day: Snapping Turtle/buried deep/in frozen
mud/stretches, flexes claws/dreams reptilian dreams//Ice/hydraulic
winter skin/lifts imperceptibly/then relaxes/Alveoli lace work at
pond's edge tightens its grip//We wait.
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