Diary in Irregular Ink

Diary in Irregular Ink is a collection of consistently realized poems that unite to form a tight coherent whole. The poems are irregular in the sense that they are ‘contrary to rule,’ that they don’t conform to expectations—this is a diary but not at all confessional. And we’re meant to notice the ink. While getting a mani-pedi with her daughter, the poet underlines a sentence in a book about physics and it becomes a “yellow ribbon [that] / unravels to infinity / then disappears inside a mirror’s open door.” Open doors are an invitation and a mirror’s open door can lead anywhere, here sliding along a vivid word-scape where images echo across pages, where lines turn corners of surprise, and where the overall effect is that you want to read the poems again.

–David Wyman