Reviews of Brace's Cove
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"Memory echoes through Joseph Featherstone's poems like a wind, sometimes gentle, sometimes wild. He stands in it bravely and with our illusion, making this wry, witty un-selfpitying, utterly candid music while time and death threaten to take it all away. For all their defiance and the frequent harshness of their circumstances, these poems manage a sweetness and grace that I find as moving as they are rare."

–Rosellen Brown

"Brace's Cove is a remarkably beautiful first book of poems. These poems are unembellished, permeable, musically sweet, riddled with necessity. Featherstone is urgent and authentic and wild with clarity; he has the gift of truth."

–Lucie Brock-Broido

"In Featherstone's world one finds an unusual blend of deep sensibility with a reliable strength. Anyone who cares for poetry will be rewarded by going straight out and acquiring this book."

–Josephine Jacobsen