Equinox By Edward Smallfield: composition through silence

Edward Smallfield’s Equinox (Apogee, 89 pages) is a truly fascinating collection of poems that weaves together a traditional form with a highly conceptual process. That form is the sonnet, a traditionally mechanical form, mystifying (and defining) Shakespeare’s poetry and cauterizing our more modern heroes such as Ted Berrigan into canon. For a form so universally Read More