This is easy-to-read and -understand poetry, about family, growing up, dealing with children and parents, birth and death, memories pleasant and unpleasant. The sentences are short, making these poems easy to read out loud, but they often end with a bang. Excellent for readers who don't think they poetry. AlarieAuthor 13 books86

I enjoyed these poems, but not as much as I expected. Shore’s poetry is accessible and mostly about family - normally that would place the book on my list of favorites. I just wasn’t sufficiently moved or surprised, except by a few poems that will make you gasp in horror. I won’t spoil your surprise by telling you why.

I most identified with “Address Book,” in which she describes her dead mother’s book that she can’t bring herself to throw away. My own address book is much it:

“X’d out, penciled in,…
recording, as in a family
Bible, those generations
born, married, and since
relocated to their graves:…”
poetry1 Tim150 6

Jane Shore is a deceptive poet. Her verse seems colloquial and accessible and then always turns deep at the volta. Just read "The Streak" from this collection and watch mundane occurrences reverberate with universal significance. Michael30 8

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