False Offering -- Rita Mookerjee, Paperback Montrose White Death 2

White Death 2

modern perspective

a massive fire breaks out in town

and there the benevolent icon Big Bird "gave me an incredible hug with his scratchy yellow wings

When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman

False Offering -- Rita Mookerjee, Paperback Montrose White Death 2Rita Mookerjee's False Offering, while providing a trenchant critique of the oppressiveness of "white space," is also glittery, culinary sumptuous, and scythe sharp. Shot through with equal parts "nectar and venom," Mookerjee's poems pirouette with muscular grace in a kaleidoscopic whirl of myth and alchemy, gods and feasts, rot and rose gold. False Offering is a feminist ledger of "battle armor meeting ballet." Like a medieval tapestry, it is piped