Review: Sweetiebetter by Terry Minchow-Proffitt
In the broad and varied tradition of American poetry, there has always been room for aspirations right beside hard truths, for optimism and darkness. In Sweetiebetter, the latest collection of poetry from Terry Michow-Proffitt, this tradition is upheld in stark and surprising fashion, through simple language, deep cultural cuts, and simple themes that percolate into much larger ideas.
Like a mystical journalist, Minchow-Proffitt firmly grounds these poems in the tangible, but there is a surreal subtlety to certain selections, where his thoughts meander outside the real, into the shadowy realms of memory and belief. There are people and muscles […]
