Each Unkept Secret

<p>Donna Prinzmetal may question how her poetry can possibly measure the distance / between the living and the dead but it does just that and more: many of her poems both measure and <em>collapse</em> that distance creating a riveting lyric voice that can fashion the right syntax for grieving. With markedly fresh and vivid imagery she employs memory's non-linearity giving us striking elegies eulogies and tributes-poems to both her dead and living loved-ones. Taking us into her confidence telling us her secrets Prinzmetal gives us a rare gift. Courageous and movingly intimate her voice speaks the poignant music of mortality the cadence between pain's husky gasps.</p><p>-Paulann Petersen Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita author of <em>My Kindred</em></p><p> </p><p>One marvel of <em>Each Unkept Secret</em> is how the sequence weaves deeper into a life by way of evocative touchstones. As the striking poems wend through detail and damage with a quiet relentless courage we come to care for the fullness of a family. Yet Prinzmetal is wily too. What we know is as important as what we don't and the absence makes room for a haunting underlying silence.</p><p>-John C. Morrison author of <em>Monkey Island</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Though she describes loss as a foreign country I had visited / against my will in these searing poems Donna Prinzmetal maps the territory of loss and grief with a compelling emotional precision. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each Unkept Secret </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a revelatory book.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-John Brehm author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dharma Talk </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No Day at the Beach</em></p>