Yes, the Ducks Were Real
Linda Lerner Yes, the Ducks Were Real New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-86-3Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Prizewinning New York poet Linda Lerner speaks in what might be regarded as traditionally feminine tones: high-pitched, clearly enunciated, a bit sad, cultured, wavering yet insistent in its maturity, twisting and stressing with the music of a Brooklyn native. For […]
The Divine Kiss
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld The Divine Kiss: an exhibit of paintings and poems in honor of David Campagna The Seventh Quarry and Cross-Cultural Communications ISBN: 978-0-89304-970-6 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Half art book, half poetry collection The Divine Kiss by artist and poet Carolyn Mary Kleefeld combines the erotic and the spiritual in fifteen impressive color-saturated semi-abstract […]
Chetrit’s Jews: Translations from Hebrew 1982-2013
Sami Shalom Chetrit Jews: Translations from Hebrew 1982-2013 Červená Barva Press ISBN: 978-0-692-33628-1Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Jews—the 2015 English translation from Hebrew of Sami Shalom Chetrit’s poetry—raves, muses, laments, whispers, roundly scolds, kvetches, and praises. These poems sing of the longing for justice, humanity, brotherhood, and peace, and always for a God who is elusive yet […]
Fracking Dakota
Peter Neil Carroll Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land Turning Point Books ISBN: 978-1-62549-122-0 Reviewer:Lee Rossi History, archaeology, and geology might be thought of as simply three different ways of looking at landscape. Trained as a historian, Peter Neil Carroll has spent the past decade traveling the United States, interrogating its places and producing […]
First Comes Love
Beth Ann Cagle First Comes Love Main Street Rag Press ISBN: 978-1-59948-516-4 Reviewer: CL Bledsoe Cagle’s collection opens with a meditation entitled “Bearing New Moons”: “My journey is numbered on a handless clock./ Am I to name the hour of my becoming?” She seems to be saying that we often aren’t in control—or at least […]
