to make birth perceptive to poetic language, of course, fails. "[B]irth is still not like/anything." And yet, a reader does discover an adherence in language too. It may not be "like anything," but the words activate the potential in a reader for receiving what the Greeks would have known as a mystery in the cult of feminine knowledge. The distance between the negated simile and the actuality of experience is where [Jenny] Browne's poetry thrives best.from Dale Smith: Bookslut: Marsupial Inquirer: Lyric Strategies I
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