A Second Experience:
A Review of Two Books by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Stella Vinitchi Radulescu: Insomnia in Flowers. Plain View Press, 2008. Diving with the Whales. March Street Press, 2008. Novice poets often [...]
The Quality of Escape
A Review of Thomas David Lisk’s Aroma Terrapin (Mellen Poetry Press, 2003, $39.95, Hardcover, 0-7734-3457-7) Lisk’s debut collection is a sneaky one. It presents itself with a humble silliness: [...]
“My Pets, the Grasses”
The Particular Pleasures of Lorine Niedecker Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works. Edited by Jenny Penberthy. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2002. 471 pages. $45 cloth. ISBN 0-520-22433-7. New [...]
Danger’s Daughter
A Review of The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry: 20th-Century Welsh-Language Poetry in Translation, eds. Menna Elfyn and John Rowlands The Bloodaxe [...]
Bird Watching: Charlie Parker as Classical Hero
A Review of Martin Gray’s Blues for Bird Blues For Bird by Martin Gray. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2001. 288 pages. ISBN: 1-891661-20-5, $16.95 (paperback) [...]
Sing, Muses
Reviews of Jeffery Beam’s What We Have Lost, Jim Clark’s Buried Land, Joel Dias-Porter’s Libation Song, and Keith Flynn’s Nervous Splendor What We Have Lost: New and [...]
Sex Education: Where We Are Going and Where We Have Been
A Review of Janice Moore Fuller’s Sex Education Sex Education: Poems by Janice Moore Fuller. Irish Press, 2004. 89 pgs. $13.00 (paper) ISBN 0-916078-60-4 The casual browser in the poetry section [...]
Righting The Mercy Compass
A Review of Donald Revell’s Arcady Arcady, by Donald Revell. Wesleyan University Press, 2002 72 pages. ISBN: 0-8195-6474-5 ($26.00 Cloth, $12.95 Paper). Yes friends, we live in a turbulent [...]
James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Vladimir Mayakovsky Join Forces
A Review of Jack Hirschman’s Front Lines Front Lines by Jack Hirschman, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 224 pages, ISBN: 0-87286-400-6, $15.95 paper “Jack Hirschman is one of the [...]
Better American Poetry
New Books by Jeff Daniel Marion, R. T. Smith, and Ron Rash Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose 1976–2001, by Jeff Daniel Marion Celtic Cat [...]
