Category: Book Review
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“The Forensics of Family” Dana Delibovi reviews “These Saints Are Stones” for Cable Street Review
This poem is a window into Tullis’s craft. She never errs in metrics. I love free verse that carries the hint of traditional English meters. It lends modern poem the dignity and austerity of the past. Tullis does this: “There is no room inside my dress for this” is perfect…
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A Powder Keg Reckoning with Polygamy: Elizabeth Pinborough reviews “These Saints are Stones” for Exponent II
The whispers of Tullis’s family dynamics, handed down in fragments and memories—who is named after whom, whose gravestone inscription denotes which relationships—become a riveting narrative that Tullis skillfully unfurls from poem to poem. Tullis’s female ancestors garden, sew, birth babies, and keep house, holding down the material realities while men…
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“These Saints are Stones” reviewed in Trampoline
The first book review is here forThese Saints are Stones! Justin Lacour reviewed the book for Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. Lacour writes: In her debut collection of poems, These Saints are Stones, Millie Tullis observes “Mormons have no saints/save the pioneers.” In a similar vein, an epigraph to the…
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