Summer Snow is a rich and substantial new collection from the acclaimed poet Robert Hass. As the former Poet Laureate’s first new collection in ten years, and the length and…
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Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2016 Reviewed by Alison Williams If a purpose of poetry is to transcend, then Hélène Cardona’s…
Before the Drought by Margo Berdeshevsky Glass Lyre Press, 2017, $17 ISBN-13: 978-1941783399 Reviewed by Tamaria del Rio In a way that mimics life, Margo Berdeshevsky’s Before the Drought never…
Ceremonial by Carly Joy Miller Orison Books, 2018 IBSN:978-0-9964397-7-0 $16 Reviewed by Maggie Blake Bailey Ceremonial, winner of the 2017 Orison Book Prize as selected by Carl Phillips, is Carly Joy…
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…
Lonesome Gnosis by Elizabeth Scanlon Horsethief Books, 2017, $24 ISBN:978-0998246307 Reviewed by Matthew Girolami Elizabeth Scanlon’s debut collection of poetry, Lonesome Gnosis, begins in Sanskrit: “They chant Kali durga namo nama…
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…
Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman Plume Editions from Madhat Press, 2017 SBN 13: 978-1941196465 Reviewed by Walter Bargen One More Hand Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “A man is a teller of…
Hallowed: New and Selected Poems By Patricia Fargnoli Tupelo Press, September 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1946482006 Reviewed by Z.G. Tomaszewski Reaching Toward What Shining We Are The poems in Patricia Fargnoli’s…
Pussy, Poems about things you think are Pornographic Bilingual: English and French Edition Henry Miller Memorial Library 2014 Reviewed by Christine Hamm What does “Pussy” mean? On the playground, it…