Death Sentences by Toby Olson Hera Lindsay Bird we can rejoice in the

we can rejoice in the fact that we’re here

and migrating geese

Criss-crossed with desire-lines and flight paths

with other poets (I'm a sucker for a Ginsberg reference) and with other art forms (I'm also a sucker for an Athur Miller reference

Death Sentences by Toby Olson Hera Lindsay Bird we can rejoice in theDeath Sentences is Toby Olsons first major collection since Darklight (Shearsman, 2007), and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died, after suffering for years from Alzheimers disease, in 2014. Many of the other poems, typical of Olsons concerns, stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four seriesDeath Sentences, I Dont Know, Disturbed and Etudesare highly