Editors’ Note: We are thrilled to present “Madwoman: A Forum on Shara McCallum’s Poetics.” Madwoman, McCallum’s fifth book (Alice James Press, 2017) is a tour de force. These poems pursue the complexities of womanhood through myth, memory, and persona vis-à-vis an array of poetic forms, including the ghazal, which invites the expectation of return through …
Jeannine Hall Gailey The Robot Scientist’s Daughter Mayapple Press, 2015 Reviewed by Donna Vorreyer “The daughters of inventors are bound/to circumscribe their father’s creations with words.” Jeannine Hall Gailey uses this book to do just that, using her own experiences growing up near a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to create a unique narrative. An …
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“i am seeking / the crucial region of the soul where response is pitted against intimately / implicated anteriors”
Hustle, Martinez’s debut collection released this year by Sarabande Books, has already received wide acclaim, winning honorable mention for the 2014 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Literature Award.
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“And it’s true
I spent my whole life in fear of sharing my mind
but with a longing for it to be taken.”
In Adam Zagajewski’s poems all forms of address are used: I, you, we. The poet is visible, yet in the hands of a skilled poet like Zagajewski, we are seduced by the poem and are also willing to ignore the manipulator’s hands.