Black Dog
Margo Lockwood
"Margo Lockwood's poems take cues from the Irish poetic tradition and the Chinese, in her depiction of nature and her simultaneous pursuit of the heart's
seasons, always listening to the subtext of that dialogue—what Frank O'Connor called 'the body's speech'."
—Christopher Jane Corkery
"These poems—about Ireland and Boston, love and family, and what it takes to recover (or rediscover) 'health'—are injected with Lockwood's 'waterfall
adrenalin' the vitality she must have inherited from her 'ancestor-Irish-farmers.' Their ancient Gift of Gab she has refined into the freshly observed,
colorfully detailed, deeply feeling, moving poems that are her gift, a gift to us."
—Lloyd Schwartz
about the author
Margo Lockwood is the author of six books of poetry, including Black Dog and Temper (bound with Nina Nyhart’s Openers), both from Alice James Books. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The New Republic, Ploughshares, Menhaden Press and South Dakota.
