Review In a series of dramatic monologues, Dorothy Brooks conjures the inner lives of two foremothers of American feminism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Brooks’s deft poems illuminate their friendship, their successes and defeats, the years of “subsoil plowing” that Anthony admits “may not bear fruit/in my lifetime.” Poems set in the present—about marriage, the 2016 election, and a 15-year-old’s pride in “beating the boys” in a sailboat race—add a depth of field and a shimmering resonance to parallel tales of the struggle for women’s rights. Subsoil Plowing is a beautifully written exploration of how we came this far and how far we’ve yet to go. Joyce Peseroff About the Author Dorothy Howe Brooks' work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary magazines, most recently in Tampa Review, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, Louisiana Literature, Broad River Review, and Chariton Review. Her second chapbook, Interstices, was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press, and her full length poetry collection, A Fine Dusting of Brightness, was published in 2013 by Aldrich Press. She teaches "Writing Poetry" in the LifeLong Learning Institute at Florida Southwestern State College in Punta Gorda, Florida.