“Melanie Janisse Barlow’s Thicket presents the reader with a linguistic briar patch: a dense, dark undergrowth of language, thorny and disquieting for trespassers, but the ideal size and shape for someone “bred and born” there.”

Check out the full review here: http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/melanie-janisse-barlow-thicket-palimpsest-press-2019-reviewed-by-john-wall-barger/?fbclid=IwAR1rc-2dE1_sZfLlDWYcRGVV4t1-nIua2zOJcfrTjixze5IghLzWxq2aA08