Pergola

Book Review:  "Karen Lee Oliver's poetry collection, Pergola, invites readers into a world of images, sensations, illusions, and even fantasy.  Oliver especially excels at presenting gothic hellscapes, and these pieces offer vivid imagery, musicality, and thematic coherence.  Oliver's poems are clear and have a strong sense of voice.  The lighter pieces are quirky and offer surprise, such as "Grandmother's Kitchen," which ends with charming ambiguity. "Say what you will,/ It'