The Richard Peabody Reader
Richard Peabody The Richard Peabody Reader Alan Squire Publishing ISBN: 978-0984832989 Reviewer: Nathan Leslie Voltaire. Nietzsche. Kerouac. Peabody. The Richard Peabody Reader takes its cues from the well-known Penguin reader series and its associated knock-offs (if you attended college in the 90s like I did, these readers were ubiquitous), which compiled a best-of for […]
The Yellow Door
Amy Uyematsu The Yellow Door Red Hen Press ISBN: 978-1-59709-430-6 Reviewer: Lee Rossi Once upon a time, I took a workshop with Garrett Hongo, the Asian-American poet and memoirist, and as always happens in such settings, some of the aspiring writers started pestering him about The Secret. Hongo, somewhat of a Zen Master in his […]
Winter River Flowing: Selected Poems 1979-2014
T. kilgore splake winter river flowing: selected poems 1979-2014 Presa Press ISBN: 978-0-9888279-6-7 Reviewer: George Wallace For lovers of American poetry that flourishes under the radar, wandering through the slow, steady experience of recollecting the past with poet t. kilgore splake will be an experience of ineluctable delight. In single poems that have basked in […]
Soto’s Time Pieces
Mark Smith-Soto Time Pieces Main Street Rag Publishing Company ISBN: 978-1-59948-511-9 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor This is how it’s done. This is how a poet takes situations and events—some ordinary, some not so ordinary—and renders them into extraordinary art. This is how prize-winning poet Mark Smith-Soto drills deep into the emotional core of things, how […]
To the Dark Angels
Jared Smith To the Dark Angels NYQ Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-003-8 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman I hunt for the little things in poets. How little we become of what we want. How insubstantial in the weight of worlds weighing down upon man’s history. —Jared Smith, “Auden’s Apartment” At first, the wall of words that comprises a Jared […]
