Afric McGlinchey’s Ghost of the Fisher Cat,
Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Afric McGlinchey Ghost of the Fisher Cat Salmon Poetry ISBN: 978-1-910669-39-6 Reviewer: Maria Rouphail What do violin strings, the mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and poisoned quinces have in common? They are conceits in Irish poet, Afric McGlinchey’s second collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat. Prompted by a Parisian legend of a ghost […]
Ted Jonathan’s Run,
Reviewed by Ace Boggess
Ted Jonathan Run New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-023-6 Reviewer: Ace Boggess If Ted Jonathan’s poetry collection, Run, were a novel, it would be described as a coming-of-age story—49 poems that escort the reader on a journey through childhood struggles, a teenager’s coping, and the finding-oneself of early adulthood. Jonathan reflects on a schoolboy […]
John Davies – Underwater Detonation of a World War II Bomb
Underwater Detonation of a World War II Bomb An ingestion of time, the bomb looks inward: tortures reel endless on a black billowing screen. Hidden from war, from seventy years’ weather, sightless rats of its own creation invent continuous season. Thumb the pressure points of earth at the temple, and thirty feet of water comes, […]
Jeffrey Little – Cognitive Promiscuity: The Undocumented Gunshot Blues
Cognitive Promiscuity: The Undocumented Gunshot Blues I am walking to the reservoir in Newark Delaware where the ghosts of passenger pigeons assemble in mutable clumps and have flocked here to reveal something I’ve long suspected but could never admit. In my left hand I’m carrying a photograph of myself sitting beside a giant mushroom on […]
John Bradley – The Face of Charles Darwin As Seen on a Nuclear Reactor Cooling Tower As Seen by a Firefly As Seen by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
The Face of Charles Darwin As Seen on a Nuclear Reactor Cooling Tower As Seen by a Firefly As Seen by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Is it is true, Cornelia, when your son was born the doctor came to you with a charcoal drawing of a baby, old as Galileo, with an ashen club foot? And you […]
