Poetry. "To spend time with Robert Murphy's AMONG THE ENIGMAS is to be in the presence of a great soul. At the center of Murphy's vision—for he is, make no mistake, a visionary poet in the line of Blake, in touch with truths that exist far beyond th...
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Poetry. "These short poems are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment—ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access a...
Poetry. "Daly perfectly captures the voice of a street-tough artist and courtier, a sculptor of heavy objects regularly on the lam. He meanwhile delivers an indelible landscape of Renaissance Italy and France—the courts, the palaces and the woodland...
Poetry. "Norbert Krapf is blessed with the haunting beauty of his childhood and youth in rural Indiana. Family and friends crowd upon him, gentle men and women, hard working farmers straight out of gracious but impoverished Germany of the nineteenth...
Poetry. "Philip Arnold's wonderful collection of poems, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A BLADE, is set in and inspired by the North Carolina Mountains. In it exists the luminous intersection between the earth the speaker treads and a vanished world he longs...
Poetry. "Artists make worlds. The world created by poet Irene Mitchell in FEVER is a world of questioning. The answers provided are found in thoughts emerging from the quotidian, becoming transcendental—thus evoking the hidden cosmic places where ou...
Poetry. "There is a singular pleasure in very short poems. David Giannini's reach in many directions: sharp observation, laughter, love, grief, irony, bitterness, wonderment. Reading these poems I kept wondering if there are some themes so wide that...
Poetry. "Sample one by one these epigrammatic, epiphenomenal, Epicurean episodes as if they were puffs from a tower of pastry. Savor the zest of lemon, the pinch of sea salt, the dollop of crème fraiche, and the absence of any more sugar than necess...
Poetry. As with the classic Chinese poets writing in exile, Jane Augustine's HIGH DESERT embodies a poetics of radical observation in which intense vision and awareness make the beauty and strength of place revelatory. A contemporary, contemplative ...
Poetry. BLOOD VERTIGO, as words yoked, is a construct that carries a lot of connotative weight, the way those two extraordinary words work when bound together. With BLOOD VERTIGO, the oral nature of the poetry is not so foregrounded...what BLOOD VER...
Poetry. "Suzuki writes: 'The true artist, like a Zen master, is one who knows how to appreciate the myo of things...[to make] a glimpse of things eternal in the world of constant changes.' In WINGS APART, Burt Kimmelman does just that. He observes t...
Poetry. "'Have you ever noticed / how things wait…?' Grace Curtis asks in the opening poem of EVERYTHING GETS OLD. 'I want this to be about wingspan / and instinct,' she writes, and then delivers on this promise. The poems in this book are poems of ...
Poetry. "By means of fragments from notebooks and typescripts, begun with the aid of fellow traveler j/j hastain, I mean to release a stereothetics or immersed 'I' within the 'eye' of infinitely expanding creation—a.k.a., Kosmos. We were given a lan...
Poetry. "The poems in Tony Brewer's HOMUNCULUS are by turns culturally critical, nimble, wily and a little dangerous in the old school punk rock sense. These are the back-alley poems, the outskirts-scholar-in-the-lab poems, the ones that hang around...
Poetry. "MUDANÇA is first and foremost a book of discovery—of a new muse from Brazil, or 'moose,' as she pronounces it; of a new language, Portuguese, in which mispronunciations turn shoes into toads and hair into horses, stampeding; of a new rainbo...