Change (will do you good)
Poems by
Gail Rudd Entrekin
Poetic Matrix Press
86 pages
ISNBN 0-9714003-4-2
A Mini-Review by B.L. Kennedy, Reviewer-in-Residence
Change (will do you good) is my first encounter with the poetry of Gail Rudd Entrekin, and, other then a minor
complaint with this volume's subtitle and that there is no indication of price, I must admit that there is some very
fine-tuned poetry between the covers of this book.
Gail Rudd Entrekin moves her language with an almost mystical sensibility which deeply draws the reader into her
poems. With this volume we are invited into a very personal and emotional journey, often growing with the poet and
her experience of the world which she inhabits.
Broken down into three distinct sections, the poet explores various stations of her life as the changes of the psyche
in relationship to the changes of the individual. Here are poems of love and sex, of fear and aging. Nowhere in the
book does Entrekin let the reader down. These are poems which beautifully leap and twist without apology, poems
rooted deep in heart and soul. To say that Gail Rudd Entrekin is simply writing from an autobiographical point of
view would be a deep injustice. These are poems of clear language that will wrap around your spine and dig.