Hannah LeClair

'Here at the midpoint of my life'

A review of Kerri Webster's 'Lapis' and Jana Prikryl's 'Midwood'

At first glance, Kerri Webster’s lyrical, lushly allusive Lapis and Jana Prikryl’s restrained, architectural Midwood make unlikely interlocutors — but both these 2022 collections situate themselves in the selva oscura of midlife and conduct their readers across the rough ground of fresh grief and ambiguous loss. Reading these two collections in dialogue offers a rich yield.

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