Meridian Her rhymes

Her rhymes

It is a book that seeks to find and maintain a human voice in a world filled with distractions: Love and lightning

Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance

These poems seem to come to us from across water

Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers

Meridian Her rhymesBeginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockworkdear reader Im trapped beating on the other pages sideand proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush, Raymond Gibsons Meridian reads like a French detective novel translated by Sappho into sparking, barking and completely original English. Brimming with invention and intelligence, this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether. As a moth lays eggs on a