The Boy is Gone: Brad Richard’s BUTCHER’S SUGAR
Butcher’s Sugar By Brad Richard (Sibling Rivalry Press) Reviewed by Taylor Murrow The title poem in Butcher’s Sugar is one that wrecked me. If you read the book from front to back, it appears about a third of the way through. By the time you reach that poem—the one that begins “Beyond the candied peristyle … The Boy is Gone: Brad Richard’s BUTCHER’S SUGAR