Some Perfect Year

Cameron Gearen's first full-length collection of poetry Some Perfect Year opens with a poem entitled Invitation and it's one we should heed. Come with stones and a selectively green car. / I've set aside a weekend for crying and sleeping the poem begins. Indeed it would be a treat to spend a weekend or longer with this book. Crying might result as some of the subject matter is heavy but Gearen leads us to a tentative redemption in the end: her final poem called Aubade mentions the morning's promise and foretells a more sanguine future.