Dog Physics

In Marcia Hurlow’s new collection, poems emerge from a specificity of the moment, which contains, as all moments do, the eternity in which they are etched. As a result, her poems achieve two winning effects: they wear their authenticity naturally, and they provide an inviting clarity so that we as readers will feel them, in poem after poem, as our own experience. Her work, grounded in the midwestern Americana of her subject matter, is what we seek in good poetry: workmanship, imaginative energy, precision, luminous images, and a striving spirit. ~David Rigsbee