News at Eleven: To write of this collection as a sonnet sequence,

though the term is a convenient shorthand, is to misdescribe it in some ways. Yes, each poem is a sonnet, but [Ted] Genoways has taken the trouble to roughen the surfaces so that the content, not the form, is most apparent at first. A number of the poems are standard 14-lines-on-the-page blocks, but others are staggered, with broken lines that mask the poems' identity and provide visual variety. His most strikingly appropriate use of form is in the only poem of rhymed couplets in the book, "Washday Song," placed just after Anna has lost her husband. After Abe's death, Anna is now uncoupled, unrhymed, and Genoways' use of the form makes the loss all the more poignant.

from Press-Register: 'Anna, Washing' by Ted Genoways

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