Review: Growth by Karin Cox

[Stacie16]

Karin Cox's Growth is a contemporary, eclectic collection of 30 poems that range in theme from scenes of everyday life, work, and England to Italian market shopping, childhood and memories of lovers. Cox is able to paint colourful images using descriptive language and plays on sound. Her short, powerful stanzas on nature and remembered love were among the most poignant: "Adriatic" and "Summer Picnic" were among my favorites of the collection. The sensuality in "Carnivorous" also made it a standout. The poem that will speak most directly to the experience readers will have with Cox's writing, and worth quoting, is this one:
Reader
You read my tale, your eyes relate
to heaven's hand of hieroglyphic stars.