Review: Odd Verse Effects by Leanne Hanson

...and her name is Leanne Hanson. A self-described "passionate defender of the written word," Ms. Hanson suffers no foolish lovers of poetic pap in her first poetry collection, "Odd Verse Effects." Imagine a marriage of poetic tradition and modern day musings so remarkable that you'll say "I do" to reading it again and again. Imagine finally sating your hunger for irrepressibly intelligent verse topped off with spot-on irreverence and generous dollops of humor. Imagine how it feels to discover a contemporary writer whose work will leave you with one immediate regret: That you didn't order extra copies for everyone you know who has a passion for savoring the perfectly crafted word. Ms. Hanson gives true lovers of "real" poetry eighty poem's worth of reasons to believe that poetry is alive, thriving and saturated with potential and possibility.