Review: The After Party: Poems Jana Prikryl Tim Duggin Books 2016 Reading poetry is a learning situation for me, new with each poet and poem. This collection of Jana Prikryl’s work is no exception. I found the initial contact anywhere from difficult to downright confusing. OK. I hated it. But I read on like a good little trooper. And behold! the confusion began to clear and the difficult became less so. What I learned from this poet is that a good dictionary can help, like tumbril from a poem of the same name. In other instances, a search for the name mentioned in the title like Tisi shed light into my darkness, but I’m still not making the connection for some of them. In short, many of these poems require more work than I’m willing to give to them. That was the front portion of her collection. The back third I found much easier to grasp and written with the tone more tran...