April Bulmer's Him, a thin book of short, episodic pieces coming from a woman's perspective, interwines poetry within its prose.
Abuse is the underlying metaphor for the first of five stories contained in the book. With sparse and spare religious images, the reader gets swept up into its aftermath that includes birth and death. In a second section entitled "Wishbone," Ms Bulmer use poetry for a fickle love lost as well as child lost from that union.
Three other short pieces follow a shy young woman, Beauty, in unrelated episodes of her life. The reader feels that with the poet's use of everyday language that someone has actually spoken the written word. The pages fly by easily as if sitting across the table listening to her, over a cup of coffee.
