The New Leader Reviews Mercury Dressing

Phoebe Pettingell has an in-depth review of Mercury Dressing in the current issue of The New Leader:

Mercury Dressing scintillates with […] startling yet apt descriptions. McClatchy knows how to make an ingenious metaphor sound so right you wish it had occurred to you first. Although these poems lament the smarts and humiliations attendant on love and loss, they provoke the kind of wonder and joy we experience when the curtain comes down on a dazzling performance.

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Poets like J. D. McClatchy prove that the Romantic Movement is alive and well.

Read the full review here (PDF—The Mercury Dressing review runs on pages 29 and 30).

March 20, 2009, 5:27pm ·