Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess

These poems are meant to be read aloud, as they think they revolve around the interesting sounds and the pairing for words, but in reality these poems rely on the weighted endings that remind the reader that this lawn is not a safe place. The direct address of these prose poems makes the reader want to inflict a narrative on these poems, but this collection rejects that idea which causes the reader to wade through and relish the ideas that appear. Many of the beginnings do feel contrived, but if a poem can begin discussing how it is impossible to get a lap dance in Seattle and then end with, "you hear the voice of the girl in the box, the voice everoyone else mistakes for spring", it is worth attention.