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Reading Masked/Unmuted by Jean Hackett is to experience the world as a poet living moment to moment, in today's chaotic political/pandemic world. With a naturalist's sensibility; she captures the interplay of daily coping and a larger concern for the planet. A singular eye that can speak to water still spins down the drain clockwise and leap to a car hood, pollen and backyard mockingbirds in a single poem. In this collection, nature is a character involving itself in a lover's breakup and white privilege. Masked/Unmasked deliberates the continual adaptation to circumstance. She describes COVID as: the plague smiled and waited to present itself in new clothes. Life on Zoom is described as: we've memorized the décor of our shared spaces. The poet's masterful use of alliteration brings an unexpected music to this work. A must read for readers looking for fresh and brilliant language and a deeper redemption. And as so aptly stated by the poet, Big decisions must fall to higher powers. Jesus take the bulldozer wheel!
-Lisha Adela GarcÃa, author of Blood Rivers and A Rope of LunaReading Masked/Unmuted by Jean Hackett is to experience the world as a poet living moment to moment, in today's chaotic political/pandemic world. With a naturalist's sensibility; she captures the interplay of daily coping and a larger concern for the planet. A singular eye that can speak to water still spins down the drain clockwise and leap to a car hood, pollen and backyard mockingbirds in a single poem. In this collection, nature is a character involving itself in a lover's breakup and white privilege. Masked/Unmasked deliberates the continual adaptation to circumstance. She describes COVID as: the plague smiled and waited to present itself in new clothes. Life on Zoom is described as: we've memorized the décor of our shared spaces. The poet's masterful use of alliteration brings an unexpected music to this work. A must read for readers looking for fresh and brilliant language and a deeper redemption. And as so aptly stated by the poet, Big decisions must fall to higher powers. Jesus take the bulldozer wheel!
-Lisha Adela GarcÃa, author of Blood Rivers and A Rope of Luna
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