Thank you to Robert Colman for his in-depth review of Barbara Tran’s Precedented Parroting in The Fiddlehead Issue 300 – hot off the shelves! Did you know that Rob and Barbara had their poetry books release together? Thanks for the awesome review, Rob!
“How does one write one’s history when facts run fleet? How does one frame a biography when names and languages exist as disparate fragments, and community acceptance is seemingly conditional? These are the questions that populate Barbara Tran’s remarkable poetry debut, Precedented Parroting. Tran’s book of poems is a tangle with memory in a variety of ways. The speaker fears it while also wrestling with historical familial gaps. This struggle resonates notably in the first section of the book through a delicately laddered metaphor…”
