My review Teaching A Wound To Speak looking at Tiffany Morris’s gorgeous new book Green Fuse Burning is up on the Southwest Review website today. My response to the book is subjective and emotional because it moved me, really digging into personal, planetary, and generational grief. You’ll have to look elsewhere for a critical, detached analysis. Here’s a snippet with a little bit about Morris:
Tiffany Morris is an award-nominated poet who only recently began writing fiction. This is her first work longer than a short story, although her poetry collections Havoc in Silence and Elegies for Rotting Stars also work with and elaborate upon sustained themes. She brings a poet’s precision to every word choice and packs luxurious layers of meaning into each descriptive passage. Often, single phrases, such as “She felt the knife-curve of his gaze slide over her,” and, “grief is just the animal experience of time” stopped me in my tracks. Without an excess of words, Morris offers the reader a wealth of language to dwell upon.
Read my review Teaching A Wound To Speak at Southwest Review. I hope it will compel you to check out Tiffany’s work.
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