Broadsides to Books: “Who is to say I am not the fortunate creator?”
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy Wesleyan University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780819577191 $13.90, purchase at bookshop.org Review by Jennifer Martelli In her poem, “Mother daughter hour,” Camille T. Dungy writes: +++++Callie is reading the book about language, and I am reading the book about death. Ball, she says, pointing to an orange. ++++++++++I shake my head. +++++++++++++++I read, Death is the mother of beauty. Dungy’s latest collection, Trophic Cascade, examines the language of motherhood, legacy, …