Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision needn’t come at the expense of depth, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s shortish program on Thursday night demonstrated.
From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.
Her story collection, ”Bear Down, Bear North ... Taking on a novel means taking on a much larger narrative arc than a short story. The scope is so much bigger and there are so many narrative threads ...