The two plagues of the title are the coronavirus pandemic and Donald Trump’s America. The latter is named directly in “Politix Comix”, “Trumpettes of the Lord” and “Rhyme of the Wall”. Section III of the book offers a sequence of 13 short “plaguelin...
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Daughter and noted poet combine her photography and his short verse. This book contains forty examples of Laura Matthias Bendoly’s recent photographs, along with an introduction explaining the history of her engagement with the art and some elucida...
In EVEN ON PARNASSUS, his third collection of verse, Lawrence Cottrell picks his way along life’s marches with the deftness of one used to walking knife edges, each step a delicious cleave of soul, the poetic witness by a man unable to avert his gaz...
Sideris carries us through grief, memory, family, and the pandemic. These poems, some originally jotted on paper napkins, show us ourselves, in our absurdity, our generosity, and our legacy.Written during the pandemic in the working class, immigrant...
Saudade for a Breaking Heart is a bittersweet twenty-first century feminist love song. How does one sing a song both happy and sad, one that longs and mourns even as it celebrates and loves? SAUDADE FOR A BREAKING HEART takes its cue from the Portu...
MAYFIELD is an account of the author’s volunteer experience in Mayfield, Kentucky in December 2021, after a devastating category 4 tornado obliterated a significant portion of the town as well as a 165 mile path of destruction across western Kentuck...
“I believe in all women who mark time in heartbeats,” Roberta Schultz writes in her new collection, UNDERSCORE. In these poems we respect the voice of a musician, a keeper of songs and memories, facts and folklore: “Our voices clatter around the tab...
“THE STAR OF THE END considers a human life through kaleidoscopically-shifting temporal perspectives: diaristic, seasonal, historical, apocalyptic, that of “normalcy” versus that of pandemic—the knife-edge of the instant, the potential fullness of t...
“This is a book of impressions. Rats run over the heads of unsuspecting diners, a man naps on a coffin lid. The Bali rice harvest whispers. Tropical heat stultifies and rain freezes. We witness over time the changes wrought by globalization and mode...
“What six words best describe the author of Sarah White’s new memoir, THE POEM HAS REASONS: A STORY OF FAR LOVE? Daughter. Mother. Artist. Poet. Professor. Translator. Write a sestina using those six words, translate it into Old French, and you’ll h...
“Welcome to San Diego,” the book begins, sardonically, given how ill at ease Fredman feels as a young Jew and aspiring poet in his seemingly paradisal hometown. In short chapters that read like prose poems, he retrieves and assembles pieces of memor...
”WHEN THE TIME COMES is an account of Hank Lazer’s death watch for his mother, bringing to memory a related series of poems written for his father. These near-death poems bring us close. For as different and unchartered as each death is, a point of ...
The poems in REINHABITED have survived a slow burn through four and a half decades. Five slim collections, the first and second twenty-five years apart, adhere to an ethic of place which runs through: “The Straits,” “To Curve,” “Moonlight in the Red...
“I read through these poems with pleasure. They’re witty poems, often moving and deeply real, with a clear music of understanding that seems to me quite original. There is never a moment of obscurity. The language seals the deal again and again, as...