Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions Rose Smith brings Ida’s life

Rose Smith brings Ida’s life slowly into focus as one poem after another exhumes “the rest of the story” and expands beyond a quiet woman’s journey into a place of insight and compassion

we can’t help but compare our emotional lives to that of the speaker

” This collection is a vivid and startling portrait

the mirrored pains and losses of Kahlo and the speaker having tuned these women’s instruments to the same pitch

It is a book that seeks to find and maintain a human voice in a world filled with distractions: Love and lightning

Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions Rose Smith brings Ida’s lifeWhen Dobreer comes to the poetry party, she brings her gypsy wagon with her, her vardo, lovingly carved from a life of lan. Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance. And this dance is never stilted or predictable. It only asks the reader to meet its rhythms, the rock and sway, the tango laced eroticism that threads Forbidden Plums. She works an almost cerebral mysticism into the lines as she