In today's Poetry Cure, we chat with award-winning poet Patrick Friesen about his book Songen (Mother Tongue Publishing), a collection of poems each one sentence long and joined by commas; the likeness of Middle English and Low German; and music as inspiration.
It's our inaugural day of #unwrapALU, where we pick twenty books for twenty picky people. Today's choices are both poetry, but that's where their similarities end: one is the Scandinavian Frayed Opus for Strings and Wind Instruments and the other is the blue-hued Shakespearean ... Read more
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