Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions we can’t help but compare

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

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

It is a book that seeks to find and maintain a human voice in a world filled with distractions: Love and lightning

I’ll be reading this book again and again

one another

Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine Quitab Editions we can’t help but compareWhen 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