Dear Editor: Poems (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)

Great!

This is an amazing book of poems. I'm a sucker for prose poems anyway but this beautiful mix of Catholicism, saints, writing, poetry, writing workshops, stunted relationships, the failure of language to truly capture human experience, the small things we do equaling the big things we become, were all encapsulated in this dynamic, ferocious, compact book. This book will leave you wanting to read more of Newman's work. These are great poems even if you normally don't like contemporary poetry or find it accessible. Great transcript of Newman talking about the work, here. [...]