The Charm: Poems

A terrific book of terrific poems! The artful choice and use of the images serve the soft burn of the poet's keeness. Fagan's images are original and authentic. Her poems are musical, refined, and highly sophisticated without being arch. Her vision exuberantly served up with big heaps of clarity. For Fagan, rather than art dull us, it actually serves to take us beyond our schematta of routine... (routine too often inures us to the real valence of our lives). Blake and Virgil keep me keen. Kathy Fagan and Erin Belieu are two more of my all time favorite authors to read! They too are smart. Their poems ranging from good hearted mischief to profound praise. Blake, Virgil, Belieu, and Fagan. Leave it to this poet to take our wakefulness, pick it up, dust it off, and have it resonating again with wonder!