My book review of poet Steve Scafidi’s book To the Bramble and the Briar is posted at Civil War Monitor: LINK

I hope the review will draw new readers to this beautiful work, especially among people who normally aren’t interested in poetry. If you’re into 19th century America and / or Civil War, I think you’ll be intrigued by these interpretations — new and yet deeply authentic to the time and place.

Some of the poems were previously published as the Lincoln Poems in blackbird and Shenandoah.