The Poems in Jodie Hollander’s My Dark Horses Surmount Emotional Milestones

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS

In the poetry of Jodie Hollander, horses run free. They represent strength, beauty, and a carefree existence that seems to elude all the humans that populate this troubled planet. “If only I were more like my dark horses,” Hollander writes in the titular poem of My Dark Horses, “I wouldn’t have to worry all the time…. I’d spend my hours grazing in the sunlight/taking long naps in vast pastures.”