Of Rebecca’s Forsythe’s latest
collection, Roman Sky (Turn of River Press, 2016), Joan Tucci challenges
“anyone to winnow their (favorite poems) down to a handful. It can't be done.”
Now drawing on as many miles and
destinations as bulbs she has planted in her Massachusetts garden (many of
which have bloomed), tomorrow night’s featured poet has resumed a career as a
childcare provider and roadie, with motorcycle trips through dozens of states
with her husband, among other experiences, relations and observations both
lingering and wry, shaping a style admired for a clarity and grace uncommon in
much of contemporary poetry.
Besides Roman Sky,
Rebecca has published Newfoundland Ferry (Turn of River Press, 2010 )
and 2001’s Prairie Morning. Click here for information on her
2011 appearance at Curley’s and audio samples of her musical collaborations
with her daughter, Amanda. The video photo album below of Rush’s “Ghost Rider” (from 2002’s Vapor Trails) visually enlivens the similarly perception-changing, introspective and regenerative pull time and motion can hold for the writer-as-rider, expressed by the rock trio’s lyricist/drummer Neil Peart, whose own two-wheeled explorations are related in Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me! (ECW Press, 2016), Far and Away: A Prize Every Time and other travel memoirs.
