![]() ![]() Adding luscious color (her husband is an artist) and with a steady buoyancy, Kane elegantly claims her life story, their love story as the seasons of switchgrass unfold-and as she and her husband come to appreciate that "the season's shortened / dusk enables more time for moonlight / and stars to share the sky. ![]() These she expertly weaves together with their love for each other and their strong marriage into something as enduring as switchgrass, whose "Deep roots subdue flood, / control washout / survive the inevitable." Kane suffuses her book's engaging narrative with the enchanting and vital role elements of nature, especially water, play in their lives, often proffering them a lifeline. While carefully observing the life cycle of wild, year-round switchgrass, Kane allows us to witness this couple's vulnerabilities, pain, and challenges. It's about their shared journey powered by courage and hope. ( ) (Note: 5 stars rare and amazing, 4 quite good book, 3 a decent read, 2 disappointing, 1 awful, just awful. Marie Kane's fourth book of poetry, Switchgrass, is certainly about her and her husband's physical disabilities, but it is much more. The Year of the Flood doesn’t deliver anything worth your time, but it does describe repeated rape, infidelity, drug use, gruesome murders that exist for no reason, and more. ![]()
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