Thursday, April 4, 2013

Part of Review of "Of a Bed Frame"


In Dan Nowak's chapbook Of a Bed Frame, there are many love poems- love poems for another person, for drinking, and for Nebraska.  They’re funny poems and sad poems.  There are intense and serious poems and happy, uplifting poems.  These love poems sit in a calm and protected place where the speaker's voice is just that- observant and caring.  At times the love poems get overwhelmingly sentimental as well as a few cliché lines are found throughout the collection.  Regardless of these pieces, the collection as a whole is lovable, something to drink in, and something to move with through time.  

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