Unlikely Skylight Reconnects Childhood Friends
“[W]hat struck me most is how honest her writing feels. It doesn’t read like something written for approval. It feels lived, raw, and true. Her stories come from a place of reflection and memory, and the impact lingers.”
Unlikely Skylight reviewed (Goodreads)
“Hollis Kurman offers something increasingly rare in contemporary poetry: clarity without compromise, intimacy without indulgence. After a second reading of this luminous book, one is struck not just by the craftsmanship of Kurman’s verse, but by the quiet force of her honesty.”
5-star review for Unlikely Skylight
“Kurman turns to the higher calling of beauty and pure language … display brilliant color effects and a sensitivity to harmonic adventure. It’s like they’re jewels from another world but populated with familiar birds and gardens.”
Unlikely Skylight reviewed in Amsterdam Quarterly magazine
“Kurman’s poetry is richly descriptive, engaging, challenging, inspiring, and concerned with past and present and the personal and the historical.”