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Poetry Book Review: The Thorn Key, by Jeana Jorgensen

Cover of The Thorn Key: Fairy Tales in Verse, by Jeana Jorgensen, featuring a large keyhole in a dark, foggy void, with brambles at the bottom of the hole, atop an icy-looking surface.

It’s not a long collection, containing about 40 poems (some just a few lines, many several e-pages long), a foreword, a list of content warnings/triggers, a fascinating multi-page afterword, and an appendix that lists which fairy tales inspired which poems. I don’t necessarily recommend trying to read all the poems in one go, since that may blunt their edges and impacts, but rather reading a few per day, taking time to savor them.