Saturday Review: “The Book Of Whys” a review by Christie Collins
Melinda Thomsen. Armature (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Our 2024 Winter Online issue is coming very soon!
This week we share Collins’s review of Armature by Melinda Thomsen. “Armature asks readers to consider the commonplace alongside the remarkable, the rural against the urban, the self together with humankind. It’s a collection that pinpoints what is miraculous and artful about our most unassuming
day-to-day experiences.”
Ask a dozen poets about their inspiration and you’ll likely receive two dozen different answers. Collins states, “In essence, these poems are the result of the poet’s curiosity of the world around her, of questions such as “why” and “what can I learn” from such subjects as the blue heron, a sculpture, the dwarf plumbago, the woman on a subway. For Thomsen, no subject is too elusive, too small, or too insignificant for poetic exploration or to provide wisdom about the human experience.”
Read the entire review. Limited signed editions are still available via the author.
