The Ice Storm

Publication Date: September 1, 2020

Green Linden Press

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In Meg Kearney’s masterful crown of sonnets, The Ice Storm, the drama of a disintegrating marriage plays out against the backdrop of storms and disasters, natural and man-made. The opening line of the first sonnet, “The marriage is over before the storm strikes” also serves as the opening line of the fifteenth, since this is (in all senses) a heroic crown. But throughout the interim, we accompany this unhappy couple, intimately experiencing with them “the silent storm that tears a marriage to rags/and leaves (them) wondering what hit them.” In retrospect, this marriage clearly seems to have been doomed from the beginning, but the painful journey of discovery the reader shares with these two people is nonetheless tonic and exhilarating, because of the sequence’s happy marriage of artistry and insight.

-Bruce Bennett

Publication Date: September 1, 2020

Green Linden Press

Pre-Order Link: https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/the-ice-storm