Review of Partner, Orchard, Day Moon by Michael Todd Steffen

Poetry needs concentration. Reading Michael Todd Steffen’s first collection of poems, Partner, Orchard, Day Moon, demands both presence of mind and a steady emotional containment. I kept putting the book down and looking behind me. Footfalls I thought. Perhaps murmurings. Or a pulse in the back of my neck. For more of my review of Steffen go here:  http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2014/03/partner-orchard-day-moon-by-michael.html