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Showing posts with label Kay Stripling Byer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kay Stripling Byer. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

Review, The Foliate Head and more

Books editor Greg Langley of The Baton Rouge Advocate reviews three recent poetry books:

Thomas Lynch's The Sin Eater,
Kay Stripling Byer's Descent,
and my The Foliate Head.
Here.

Clip: "A rarity among poets today, Youmans writes in metered verse, sometimes rhyme. Her skill at mastering the forms is impressive."

When I was a high school girl in Cullowhee, Kay worked with my mother at the Western Carolina University's Hunter Library, and we often talked about poetry and writing. So it is interesting to be bracketed with her this way...