David P. Reiter

Though I know little about Spain and less about Hemingway, I enjoyed this collection a lot (and to be fair, while all of it has a connection to Spain, the connection to Hemingway is sometimes peripheral). David Reiter pilots the reader confidently and entertainingly around both his and the famous author's connections to Spain and to "Maria". This is assured, powerful poetry. I'm sure I would have got even more out of it had I better knowledge of the subject matter it traverses.