Breaking a Mare by Christina Thatcher Penned in the Margins you'll still be secretly sick

you'll still be secretly sick with jealousy

and while he acknowledges the power of the past

Top Doll is a story of love

especially the very distant past: mammoth bones

Breaking a Mare by Christina Thatcher Penned in the Margins you'll still be secretly sickIn Christina Thatchers vivid new collection, the farm offers wildness and wonder to a young girl, as she witnesses bodies broken and made strong again. Breaking a Mare shows us that the breaking can be part of the survival. Rebecca Goss What a precision feat this book pulls off. On the one hand, these are poems of sleek physicality of clasp and bit and buckle and braid with shrewd things to say about the tyranny of polish and perfection. At the same