Dan Bellm (1)

Bellm tends to have a meandering style to his poetry, kind of like a running internal monologue. One thought bleeds into the next, the universal drawn down into personal experience. It took me a long time to read this book. Bellm tends to favor longer form poems, which require more focus and attention and several read throughs so that I can try to grasp the effect of the overall poem. I will probably need to read these poems again, sifting through them to grasp them. I tended to enjoy the shorter poems in the collection, which allowed me to follow the flow of thought in a more managable fashion.… (meer)