Poetry. "The poems in Allen Brafman's WHEREVER I LOOK, I AM NEVER THERE are on fire. There is a violence, a wrenching grief. This is where I am, he said. 'It is music, it is smoke / coming from my mouth.' Or this: 'my voice / no longer words / but t...
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Poetry. "What a pleasure to read Eileen Brilliant's wondrous poems; some, clear-eyed riddles from 'the anarchy of dreams,' others helpless to hide the secret self from herself, or from us, her fortunate readers. She wishes to leave her mark, wishes ...
Poetry. "Whether describing a pigeon as 'the soul / of a homeless penny' and a 'smoke-filled dove,' or 'wondering // when the Sinatra stardust will fall,' John Goode creates a reality that sidesteps physical boundaries. If it were possible to reshap...
Fiction. "Set on the Iowa prairie, THE EMILY FABLES is Stephanie Emily Dickinson's homage to a lost world. Dickinson brings all of her powers of compassion, an eye to detail, and her ability to look unflinchingly at suffering and uses them to conjur...
Fiction. Rob Cook's THE CHARNEL HOUSE ON JOYCE KILMER AVENUE presents the reader with an 'I' spectacularly divorced from the human race. Hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny, Cook's brilliant prose portrays the jinxed world of a college student making hi...
Fiction. Women's Studies. "MONTE CARLO DAYS & NIGHTS is the story of a love affair laced with fluid motives and an unpredictable balance of power. Reading these tightly locked, impeccably drawn chapters was akin to sitting with an old photo album th...
Literary Nonfiction. The unsparing homecoming of the prodigal daughter to help care for her dying mother. A New York writer is drawn back to the rural Iowa of her youth when her mother's health begins to fail and dementia rears its head. While campe...
Fiction. "What Gessner does best, perhaps, is create microcosms—self-contained worlds in which he has made up the rules and established the action. I'm reminded of a drop of water, which, under van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, turned out to be teeming ...
Poetry. From the beginning of her career, Cherry has written both formal verse and free verse. According to the citation preceding her receipt of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1989, "Her poetry is marked by...
Poetry. Finalist for the Julie Suk Award. "LAST WINDOW AT THE PUNK HOTEL is the most recent collection from one of Americas most daring poets. It can be unnerving to read the reality Rob Cook brings to his language, especially when it gets so close ...
Fiction. WHERE THE SURVIVORS ARE BURIED contains two novellas that explore the eternal struggles couples endure to capture and hold onto illusive everlasting love. Walking East, set in post-9/11 Brownstone Brooklyn, follows the life of Miriam Cornis...
Fiction. In nine interconnected stories set largely in Guatemala, CONCEPCIÓN AND THE BABY BROKERS brings to life characters struggling with familiar emotions and dilemmas in a place unfamiliar to most Americans. From the close-knit community of Todo...
Poetry. "AURA LIFETIME strips away detail to leave the faint glow around everything seeking to be known and named. Our own wounds and words provide a place for that light to emit and enter. 'Memory controls the occurrence,' as Thilleman writes in th...
Fiction. THE ABSENT'S themes are one and many, connecting as they are layered: early photography, 19th century Philadelphia, the resonant voices of women, the fusion of landscape and man, westward expansion, grief and mourning, memento mori. Rosalin...
Poetry. Art. With her allusions to fine art and her own impeccable sense of color and texture, one might be tempted to say that Alexandra van de Kamp has a painter's eye. But that cliché would overlook the exquisite temporal dramas she attends to wi...