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Environmental Sensibilities
- Soraya Erian (Author)
Ariadne's Thread. Childe Thursday - Vivian Marple (Author)
I Mention the Garden for Clarity. Quarry Press - A. F. Moritz (Author)
Mahoning. Brick Books - Karen MacCormack (Author)
Marine Snow. ECW Press - Neile Graham (Author)
Spells for Clear Vision. Brick Books
Reviewed by Stefan Haag
The Mahoning River originates in Ohio and joins the Beaver River, a tributary of the Allegheny, in Pennsylvania. In the opening section of eleven poems, Moritz describes "another Egypt, of another river / . . . / a more violent desperation, mightier tombs", namely the Mahoning River next to which he grew up. While the recurring image of rust is used to indicate decay and desperation, it also emerges in the poet’s mind as "iron escaping its alloys, returning its oxygen", thus as an imag […more…]