Aroma Truce

Poetry. The poems in Terrell Jamal Terry’s AROMA TRUCE announce their arrival with language that is both instinctual and inevitable, ‘the same way as weather, ’ the speaker tells us in the opening poem. Each poem creates its own stunningly perfect world, yet somehow each of these worlds manages to open up and say something about the one we inhabit. Through this continual unfolding, this is a book for our time, a book of both ‘frail worry’ alongside ‘stubborn hope, ’ a book that offers desire alongside what one might hope for others: ‘I would like goodness & to be good.’ –Adam Clay