DIAMONDS reviewed in The Boston Globe

Nina MacLaughlin reviewed DIAMONDS in The Boston Globe: “In her heated new collection ‘Diamonds’ (BOA Editions), Vermont-based poet Camille Guthrie offers John Keats a fleece jacket and a scarf from Etsy. “Keats, what are you doing / Siting in a moss’d tree—having thoughts?” she asks. The book is an open-chested look at the latter-half of life, at divorce, at the various severings, indignities, and weirdo joys of living. She calls out to various figures, to King Louis XV, to Björk, to H. D. (“I need your flowered vision, lady”), as well as the wise woman of the forest, asking her “How to keep owls out of my hair, to stack wood … to seal the cracks / In my heart to keep the ice out,” asking, ultimately, “What’s the song I have to sing to myself?” There’s humor amid the “degrading heartbreak.” Hieronymus Bosch’s dating profile shows him to be the “the kind of guy who will hoist a human-sized jackrabbit onto my back and crash my neighbor’s varicose-veined egg house party” on a Friday night. These are wry poems, ones that move with heated blood and blistering vitality, wanting and alive.”