Start With A Small Guitar

by Lynne Thompson

Start With A Small Guitar is a collection of poems, from the 2021 Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, that celebrate and suspect, extol and mourn, despise and pray for love, in all its terrible, bewitching iterations.  Neither biography nor dream--despite the way the poems' titles mislead--these poems hope and pretend and, in the end, wrap their arms around a language that gives rise to love's mysteries.  The poet hopes that her readers will be bewildered and enchanted, infuriated and left on a precipice.