X Matthew Holmes Bifford makes use of folkloric

Bifford makes use of folkloric motifs and the juxtaposition of wilderness and urban environments to emphasize radical gaps in human understanding

His latest book of poems

Without philosophical discourse or interrogation

imbuing their agony with a fine and desperate dignity and allowing the reader to be swept along as well

it's all here in this lively

X Matthew Holmes Bifford makes use of folkloricDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing