My Stunt Double, by Travis Denton reviewed by J.G. McClure Travis Denton’s latest poetry collection, My Stunt Double (C&R Press 2018) shows a poet grappling with what beauty might mean in…
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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…
Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman, tr. Benjamin Balint 92 pages Shearsman Books, 2016, £9.95 / $17 ISBN 9781848614772 Hagit Grossman’s Trembling but Open Space Trembling of the…
Kanji Poems by David Galef World Poetry (2015) ISBN: 9781625491411 Reviewed by Willard Spiegelman How often does a new poetic type swim into our ken, arrive on the scene unannounced? When,…
Reviewed by Elizabeth Knapp “When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness?” poet Yusef Komunyakaa has asked. As a poetic tradition, perhaps “The Poetry of Witness,” a…
Solitary Architectures, Selected Poems by Kornelijus Platelis, translated by Jonas Zdanys Lamar University Press, 2014, 115 pages, paperback Reviewed by Michael Jennings Kornelijus Platelis is a world-class poet whose work,…
Reviewed by Kyle Martindale To say that Jericho Brown’s book The New Testament is relevant and timely—to say it speaks to the marginalized as powerfully as it speaks to the margin-maker—to say…
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…
On “The Obstacle Poems” The serial poem that follows, “The Obstacle Poems,” by Karl Patten—who invokes the poet’s most ancient role, that of speaking something into being—was written specifically to…
Reviewed by Amanda Fuller Marilyn Chin’s fourth collection of poems, Hard Love Province is an assortment of love songs, elegies and frisky quatrains that rivet and ricochet. Hard Love Province…