Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

A lovely chapbook, well-organized into sections that relate to the title--Walking Through Myths, Threading Shadows, Scattering Clouds...and a Diptych of two ekphrastic poems, with the next section also starting with an ekphrastic poem. I guess I am powerfully interested in how poets structure their books!

Strong visuals throughout, and strong sensory images in general--including sound and touch.

I was most moved by the opening section, Walking Through Myths, that focuses on a boy who grows up in some stressful circumstances. I love seeing a female poet enter a male consciousness. Marion Boyer does this in her Jake poems (in the chapbook Green and the collection The Clock of the Long Now), and I am impressed with how Wilkes does it here, with both empathy and restraint. Shakespeare wrote so many interesting female characters. I am glad to see women writing about men in this close and intense way.

Good title, too. Sound intriguing, this one.