Revenge

<p><strong>In Revenge Lauri Robertson's biting 6th volume of poetry a woman becomes so angry that she throws a piece of plastic into the regular garbage instead of the recycling. But it's not all a revenge-lite catalogue; note the Girl Scouts accidentally or otherwise leaving her out of the troop because her mother was in a psychiatric hospital. The vignettes resonate deeply and remind the reader of their own stories. Robertson who happens to be a psychoanalyst makes unvarnished dumbfounded inquiry into our nature(s). This is not appalling worldly revenge though perhaps some kind of understanding begins here. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>