Hotel at the End of the World
Berland, Dinah
How lovely and rare it is to find a book of purely lyrical poetry like Hotel at the End of the World. With images that are at once visually vivid and musical-"the silver sheets of light, " "a shawl of rain draped across a distant mountain"-Dinah Berland's book draws us in with all our senses and shepherds us through broad landscapes of feeling. Humor merges with memory and longing in poems about her childhood self, her family, her ancestors: "...
