Home Delivery: New and Selected Poems

In her latest collection of poetry, entitled Home Delivery, Lou Barrett returns to familiar themes—love, loss, the beauty and the terror of the world, the search for lost time. Her resilient spirit demands that, at age ninety-one, she continue to write a “script of amazement and indignation” lest “the unfinished self…live in exile.” Time is a major concern in this volume. The poet writes of “how reverently one should consume all of Time’s hoard.” The poems provide a kind of portal into cher...