Book Review: "Karen Lee Oliver's poetry collection, Pergola, invites readers into a world of images, sensations, illusions, and even fantasy. Oliver especially excels at presenting gothic hellscapes, and these pieces offer vivid imagery, musicality, and thematic coherence. Oliver's poems are clear and have a strong sense of voice. The lighter pieces are quirky and offer surprise, such as "Grandmother's Kitchen," which ends with charming ambiguity. "Say what you will,/ It's O.K. here,/ To laugh at your/ Goodbyes." Overall, though, readers who enjoy moody, fantasy-inflected atmospheres will find elements to admire here." - BlueInk Review Book Synopsis: Pergola, in the Italian language, means a trellis used to grow flowers or vines. Upon this idea, I wrote a collection of poems that seem to follow a winding path in nature as well as life. Written between 1986 and 2000, Pergola was created from images I had while living in New York City as well as where I live now, in rural New York State. In Pergola, I combined city and country in what I think is an interesting selection of poems. Autobiography: KAREN LEE OLIVER was born October 1,