Chapbook Review: Cecilia Woloch's Earth
Cecilia Woloch
Earth
Two Sylvias Press, 2015
46 pages, $9.90 In Earth, winner of the 2014 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, Cecilia Woloch focuses on the major movements of life—across continents, between childhood and adulthood, and from life to death—in compelling poems that allow each transition its full measure of significance in a network of shifting pieces. What I appreciate most about these poems is that they are not in a rush. Woloch develops each character, each fa


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