Title: Workshop poems
Product review: Matthews' book, like many others being published these days, suffers from the dreaded workshop flu. These observations, unfortunately, fail to rise above the everyday, because it's as if anything strange, unusual, vivid or unique has been edited out. She's a careful craftswoman, but the ephianies remain buried in a system of images and symbols that don't tell us anything new. It's a shame, and a disappointment, that she doesn't trust her own voice more thoroughly. For a book in a similar style that soars above to truly engage, try Claudia Emerson's the Late Wife.
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