Poetry. "Sometimes surreal, always evocative, Judith Skillman's poems seem to well up from an inner hot spring. This collection is the latest in a lengthy and rich body of work. Not merely a keen observer, Skillman interprets for us the world around...
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Poetry. "There is great wit and a sly, honed gravitas in these poems. Florence Weinberger wrestles the ineluctable irony at work in every aspect of our lives, and wins; each poem provides a practical wisdom, and her range is amazing, from Opera, phi...
Magazine. Poetry. Reviews. SPILLWAY 26 is the first with editors Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart. This volume includes an interview with Patricia Smith; and features poetry by Mariano Zaro, Kim Young, Angel Garcia, Saddiq Dzukogi, Vickie Vertiz, Hol...
Poetry. "Donna Hilbert's poems are brave, unsparing and heartfelt revealing a woman's life in a way that is universal. Her voice is confident and dodges nothing. Her poems don't waste a word. One wants to say 'Yes.' One wants to say 'Sister.'"—Joan ...
Poetry. "Gayle Kaune's third book, NOISE FROM STARS, is a collection of lyric poems, rich in sense of place, surprise, and imagination. Kaune's mind takes quick leaps, sometimes shifting point of view, making her story rich and complex, while motifs...
Poetry. "In Ezra Dan Feldman's luminously postmodern HABITAT OF STONES, 'omens are aerial,' clouds thicken — in a deliciously precise observation — 'like marble cake,' and 'the arrogant man' (having 'mistaken a bathtub for a grave') discovers that l...
Poetry. The New World Translation Series Number 5. Translated by Jon Davis and Christopher Merrill. "The Iraq that appears in DAYPLACES is a literary construct as well as a political and historical fact. It is as if Naseer Hassan has recreated Iraq—...
Poetry. "Susan Landgraf's book, WHAT WE BURY CHANGES THE GROUND is layered in history and the beauty of well-told stories. Here we enter into a world built from nature and narrative, nurture and nourishment—and her poems fill us. Landgraf's poems ca...
Poetry. Second Edition with an introduction by David St. John. "A brandishment of insouciant play, Jeanette Marie Clough's FLOURISH is a 'bold or extravagant gesture or action' from startto finish. Luring us with the name of a 'thing' we think we kn...
Poetry. "Jackson Burgess is a phenomenal young poet, and whether he's writing against the backdrops of Los Angeles (and its dark underworld) or the bohemian gloss of Paris, he is the most urgent and raw urban Transcendentalist in recent American poe...
Poetry. "Although Ephraim Scott Sommers' smart, terrifying poems deny the safety of arrival, they remain in their rejection of closure stubbornly, improbably hopeful. Not for redemption or peace of mind—these anxious poems know better than to hope f...
Poetry. The New World Translation Series Number 4. Translated by Diana Shi and George O'Connell. "Wang Jiaxin's DARKENING MIRROR, edited and translated by Diana Shi and George O'Connell, belongs to this moment, and reading it, one is aware again tha...
Poetry. "In this spectacular debut collection, Brenda Yates reminds us that "bodily" knowledge is also a worldly knowledge—that is, an understanding of our own shifting circumstances—as well as a recognition, a true knowing, of our transience upon t...