The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham in the chapter entitled Revolutions

in the chapter entitled Revolutions

the poet’s much anticipated second collection

economic – engenders its own nervy music

 Boston Review

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham in the chapter entitled RevolutionsThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive