Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions Cline gives us fourteen contemporary

Cline gives us fourteen contemporary sonnets carrying over the last line of a poem as the first line of the next

we can’t help but compare our emotional lives to that of the speaker

” This collection is a vivid and startling portrait

“All things break and fall against this life

Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions Cline gives us fourteen contemporaryWhen Dobreer comes to the poetry party, she brings her gypsy wagon with her, her vardo, lovingly carved from a life of lan. Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance. And this dance is never stilted or predictable. It only asks the reader to meet its rhythms, the rock and sway, the tango laced eroticism that threads Forbidden Plums. She works an almost cerebral mysticism into the lines as she