I’m grateful to Nick Allison for reviewing Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry. His website, The Chaos Section Poetry Project, is linked below. If you haven’t visited it yet, you might want to explore the site.
https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/
Here is part of the review. Follow the link below to finish reading it.
Melissa Lemay, who readers will recognize from Record of Dissent, is back with a new collaboration, and this one leans hard into play. Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry is a quick, sharp collection co-written with Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard, with a striking cover illustration by Lesley Scoble, that takes a poetic form rooted in Japanese tradition and shakes it awake.
The rengay—a modern adaptation of Japan’s ancient linked-verse forms—was created by Garry Gay in 1992. It’s a six-part collaborative poem, traditionally written by two or three poets who take turns building around a shared theme. You can think of it as jazz in verse. Each stanza riffs on what came before, shifting tone, mood, or image while keeping a thread that ties the whole thing together.
In this book, that thread runs wild…… To Be Continued below…..
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