Tales from the Mirwood

Book Review:  "Karen Lee Oliver's Tales from the Mirwood is a collection of poems that resemble surreal dreams, with many mysterious images (spiral staircases, labyrinths, twilight) that often come alive through personification.  Oliver also includes more personal-seeming poems, pieces written in first person that peel back the illusions of the day to reveal a haunted narrator, as in "A Dark Illusion," which begins: "I live /With all the horrors/ Of the night/ To which, /My soul has an