Mother Desert by Jo Sarzotti (Graywolf Press, 2012)  |  review by Rachael Richardson

In Jo Sarzotti’s first book of poems, Mother Desert, we are taken into a strange landscape—one inhabited by horses, lions, and elephants, and composed of ice, desert, sea, and bone. These shifting and hard-to-pinpoint locations track the efforts of a mind in the act of comprehending loss. More…