A review by davenash
The Analyst: Poems by Molly Peacock

4.0

Series of poems about the poet's relationship with her psychoanalyst after the analyst has strokes, stops working and starts painting. I enjoyed the narrative to format to these touching poems that explore more than a doctor-patient relationship. Some poems stand on their own outside the general narrative Mandala in the Making, The Art of the Stroke (a golden shovel), and Mount Anger. I enjoyed her poem on how to say thank you in French. Peacock mixes different styles of poetry so each poem is different. Innovative. Could be read in one sitting and then returned to several times.