Steve Scafidi: To the Bramble and the Briar
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
My book review of poet Steve Scafidi’s book To the Bramble and the Briar is posted at Civil War Monitor: LINK
I hope the review will draw new readers to this beautiful work, especially among people who normally aren’t interested in poetry. If you’re into 19th century America and / or Civil War, I think you’ll be intrigued by these interpretations - new and yet deeply authentic to the time and place.
Some of the poems were previously published as the Lincoln Poems in blackbird and Shenandoah.