Traversing Regression: A Collection of Poetry

Elizabeth Donahey’s Traversing Regression is a collection of poems written during the 1990s. Th e anthology is absolutely fascinating. The poems are generally brief, free-form and thematic. The language and the imagery are beautiful, powerful, and impressionistic such as the poem Provence, France. Nature inspires much of the imagery, from rose blossoms to blue heavens, moonlight, trembling trees… Donahey writes in the Romantic tradition of Wordsworth and Byron (to whom the longest poem in t...