Unsung Offerings
By Marianne Brems
Release Date: September 3, 2021
Review by Thomas Page
Nature is an integral part of art. It has a vivacity that will remain despite all of the factors that seek to destroy it. We are all a part of Nature and it is a part of us. Marianne Brems’ Unsung Offerings is a celebration of its resiliency and its power it has over us.
Brems’ poetry is part of a storied tradition of the Nature Poem in the English language. It is one of those subjects that is universal in its appeal to readers. Brems continues this tradition through her contemporary lyrical style. This can be best seen in “The Ants with their Burdens” which combines the classical sensibilities of poetry with the contemporary lyricism of her diction. Breems is also aware of this tradition’s flaws of overhyping and oversimplifying the role of Nature in…
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