I am grateful to poet and scholar Tryphena Yeboah for her thoughtful review of West Portal in Southern Indiana Review’s Meter Reader series. Of the book, Yeboah says, “These are poems that leave the reader charged with hope and open to the delightful pleasures of living, even in the face of loss. A speaker’s imagination is what bridges the distance between the self and a ghost, and the conversations that take place are not an outburst, not a loud declaration but a reach into the darkness to sing. It is an invitation to a landscape that, while it speaks of dying and death, its words are marked in living and life, brimming with the kind of curiosity that shakes off human indifference and provokes our sensibilities.” You can read the rest of the review here: https://www.usi.edu/sir/meter-reader/benjamin-gucciardi-review