The Fire Lit & Nearing by J.G. McClure. Brooklyn, New York: Indolent Books May 2018. 78 pages. $14.99, paper. Whenever I encounter a new volume of poetry, I open…
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J. G. McClure
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora Copper Canyon Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781556595110 $11 Reviewed by J.G. McClure The opening poem of Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied, “To Abuelita Neli,” lays out the difficult, high-stakes emotional…
Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang Copper Canyon Press, 2017 IBSN: 9780688156978 $16 Reviewed by J. G. McClure Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang’s fourth collection, makes use of a voice American Poet has aptly called…
The Silence that Remains by Ghassan Zaqtan (trans. Fady Joudah) Copper Canyon Press, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1556595141 Reviewed by J.G. McClure Ghassan Zaqtan’s volume of selected poems, The Silence That Remains, is…
Blood Lyrics takes risks: these highly lyrical, highly sincere, highly empathetic poems have none of the ironic, skittery posturing all too fashionable in poetry these days.
“In his brilliant debut Storm Toward Morning, we find a poet working within, struggling against, and actively reshaping poetic form.”