cover image Planned Solstice: Poems

Planned Solstice: Poems

David Micah Greenberg. University of Iowa Press, $16 (70pp) ISBN 978-0-87745-858-6

With at least three poems (""The Hole in the Ocean,"" ""Waltz Gourd,"" ""Errand of Slate"") destined eventually for anthologies, Planned Solstice, by New York poet David Micah Greenberg, is by turns frightening, hopeful, and lyrical, taking in the nexus of exigency and bureaucracy, eros and government, sensibility and violence-in all their cyclic seasonality: ""In disagreements and sympathy origins/ countenance daily the ever-stricken plan/ whose conclusions seem inevitable only from that course.""