The Lantern Room

<div>In The Lantern Room her exquisite new collection Chloe Honum moves as her poems do with range precision and astonishing beauty. Honum's speaker travels across Arkansas motel to motel missing a beloved and in the book's crown jewel 'The Common Room' chronicles an out-patient hospitalization in a psychiatric ward. The collection closes with sublime meditations on the speaker's mother's death: 'How will I live without her?' How indeed. This book is that survival and more than that an extraordinary mind pressing through language to speak so deeply so startlingly the reader is made larger to receive its enormous gift: 'But I have rain in my hair. This much is true. Let me bring it to you.'<br> -Allison Benis Whit</div>