Breaking a Mare by Christina Thatcher Penned in the Margins Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought

Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought

the moment when things appear strange

Like the day’s events

here kept aloft in English by the force of Katherine Silver’s translation

and while he acknowledges the power of the past

Breaking a Mare by Christina Thatcher Penned in the Margins Hoskote's metaphors are finely wroughtIn Christina Thatchers vivid new collection, the farm offers wildness and wonder to a young girl, as she witnesses bodies broken and made strong again. Breaking a Mare shows us that the breaking can be part of the survival. Rebecca Goss What a precision feat this book pulls off. On the one hand, these are poems of sleek physicality of clasp and bit and buckle and braid with shrewd things to say about the tyranny of polish and perfection. At the same