When is a Burning Tree New Release Amy Small-McKinney’s necessary new book

Amy Small-McKinney’s necessary new book

and understated by turns

Rich rural settings draw the reader into lush meditations on fish and water

not just another heart but also "a second brain inside") and the shock

When is a Burning Tree New Release Amy Small-McKinney’s necessary new bookIn Christina Seymours splendid, delicate collection she uses images from paintings and natural landscapes to describe her own vivid interior life. The speaker of these poems tells us: Any living thing is as good as a Renoir; she knows Theres only so much preparing for the flood of acorns, their soft meat crumbled in piles on the sidewalk; she opens a small attic window for truth. Seymours poems are quiet, precise, and powerful. Faith Shearin, author