Rx

by Josh Sapan

In his debut collection, Josh Sapan guides us through a lifetime of love and loss as he navigates death-of loved ones, of crickets, of houseplants-in an American landscape teeming with wonder and the promise of rebirth-in the stars, the wind, the minnows in the bay. In Rx, the prescription is literal ("blue-fog medicine breath") and figurative ("Love so big,/ it comes in a gigantic red box."). Sapan offers a glimpse into the sometimes painfully delicate and beautiful parts of life.

Genres: Poetry

65 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2023

Reviews

[Regan Strehl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I told my cat that I love her. She's just a cat. She doesn't understand what my words meant. But she closed her eyes and started to purr anyways. Maybe she purred at the sound of my voice or perhaps something else. But how she felt during that moment is how I felt reading this poetry book. I didn't quite understand what he was talking about. I couldn't relate. But the words had a nice cadence to them when read out loud and I like some of the imagery.