Without passing judgments of right and wrong or approaching sentimentalism, the poems show the deepest feelings and thoughts of the human psyche. In many of her poems, Frost uses an unusual style of punctuation to make the reader stop. She places colons right after opening parentheses, dashes before semicolons, or commas followed by dashes. The effect is at first unnerving, but just as an unexpected rhythm or melody in music evokes emotion, the odd combination of signals to stop and pause guides the reader as powerfully as the language of the poem.
Unusual images appear throughout the collection.
These poems are not easy, however, and a reader without a moderate background in Roman mythology and the Bible might miss the metaphor and meaning in a number of beautiful pieces. How lonesome evening seems, as if something felt part of itself missing. Carol Frost is married to Richard Frost, also a poet, whose book Neighbor Blood is also reviewed in this issue of the Blue Moon Review. The Blue Moon Review, All Rights Reserved.