A review by simplyb
Murder Ballad by Jane Springer

3.0

The beginning of the book reads like a profile in form and structure. Literally. With its words cleverly distributed among the page. I'm perhaps not sophisticated enough with my poetry, but I found it more distracting than contributory, and the poems would waft out of reach. But it picked up about halfway through with a couple of great long poems about marriage and its course, about the place women have in love and relationships, about the pull of life and convention. She has a nice sense of words and flow without erudition. And it had just enough darkness without being totally pessimistic. Nice collection, but did not blow me away.