The Washington Independent has picked their April “Examplars”, and among them is Roberta Beary’s Deflection.

Grace Cavalieri (who also wrote a blurb for the book) calls Roberta “the mistress of the short form poem”.  “In Deflection she extends her reach with some of the most searingly truthful work I’ve seen this year.”

Among the other picks for the best of April are Jane Hirschfield’s The Beauty, Parneshia Jones’s Vessel, and John M. Fitzgerald’s Favorite Bedtime Stories.

You can see the list in its entirety by clicking here.