In the poems of The New Economy, author Gabrielle Calvocoressi pours themself out in the repeated image of the cistern: a way to hold themselves and the weight they have been carrying. Readers who carry duality in their own body will resound with poems brimming with exquisite lines like: “I want a full opening / absurd in its bounty” and “Sometimes the things / that matter to you won’t matter to anyone but you. And that’s redemption.” Calvocoressi has once again written a book with heart, full of attention to the line and the body, that will fill a reader with deep feelings–among them, gratitude and hope.
The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, (List Price: $22, Copper Canyon Press, 9781556597213, October 2025)
Reviewed by Julia Paganelli Marin, Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas