The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott Sarah Corbett blooming behind the wallpaper

blooming behind the wallpaper

whose gifts were apparent in her previous two collections

Their delicate reconstruction in the final part of book three becomes a moving

the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience

politically adept and in control

The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott Sarah Corbett blooming behind the wallpaperLaura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet