Poetry. THE DUST, J.R. Solonche's twenty-first book of poetry, is a worthy addition to his oeuvre. In poems like "Purple Crocus," "Skunk Cabbage," "Opossum," "There Is an Insistent Green," "Such a Noise in the Woods," and many others, his eye for th...
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Poetry. "Henry Weinfield's poems are, like the bird of his title, dark and foreboding. Western civilization, they appear to be telling us, has lost its way and now has nowhere to go. But this view is expressed in poems as articulate, elegant, learne...
Poetry. At the heart of IN A BROKEN STAR, we find the themes of diaspora and quest romance, prophecy and gnosis, which have long suffused Norman Finkelstein's poetry. The central poem of the book, "The Adventures of Pascal Wanderlust," is a long nar...
Poetry. The poems in FEVER AND BONE meditate on the bright and bitter moments that make up the human experience of time. Poems written during the first year of the pandemic embody the writer's awareness of temporality, contagion and mortality—of bod...
Poetry. "'With every curse a little blessing,' Pauletta Hansel quotes in her chapbook FRIEND, a collection of epistolary poems written during the first six months of the pandemic. The centerpiece of this collection is a collage that encompasses bota...
Poetry. Megan D. Henson's second poetry collection explores the fluid identity of a ghost who calls herself Little Girl Gray and begins appearing to Henson at her bedside during a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Through this exploration in the form ...
Poetry. Linehan's fourth collection, & COMPANY, now presented by Dos Madres Press, moves into a new setting, subject, and style. In a search to know her maternal grandmother, Linehan turns to the documentation painters left of the fashion worlds in ...
Poetry. "Night and day, Ken Taylor works on our behalf, reading the mind of the sky, where quick clouds disclose our fate. His poems are a single, keenly rendered, immaterial tableau. They take shape, they dissolve, over and over, in ever-fresh conf...
Poetry. "Between being and seeming, there is always a point of agreement, as if being and seeming were two inclined planes that converge and become one." This observation by novelist José Saramago opens Deborah Diemont's third collection, THE CHARME...
Poetry. LLANTO TONTO. David Almaleck Wolinsky fronts his claim on us with a self-mocking, euphonious rhyme—a near-antinomy, in an idiom that is neither these poems', nor his own. Well. He could well be another scribbler splashing around for a moment...
Poetry. In Roald Hoffmann's latest poetry collection, he casts his inquisitive mind and love for words and syntax on the worlds he encounters. In a winter retreat in inland Provence, he ponders the long-cultivated land around, and its little treasur...
Poetry. THE FACTS AT DOG TANK SPRING is Andrew Schelling's first book of poetry in seven years. Following his folkloric study Tracks Along the Left Coast, his new book speaks largely to an American West lying inland: the Indian Peaks, canyons and ra...
Poetry. Fiction. Memoir. In Fall 2018, as members of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative sat in the rocking chairs that edge Highlander Center's circular gathering space discussing this volume's theme, we could scarcely imagine the many new...
Poetry. THE BUTCHER'S REINCARNATION, the most recent volume of poems by the Chilean master Óscar Hahn, is a selection of some of his most dystopian works on life in the nuclear age. The madness of war, the pathos of needless carnage, mankind's appar...