Karen Volkman’s Whereso, Reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
Karen Volkman Whereso BOA Editions Reviewer: Wynn Yarbrough Karen Volkman has published books now for over eighteen years. In that time, her four collections of poems have varied in formal arrangements and stylistically in terms of line length and compaction. Her previous releases—Crash’s Law (1998), a mix of forms; Spar (2002), a mixed prose form […]
Introduction by John Amen
Introduction by John Amen One of my first & most enduring literary impressions re the catastrophic impact of war, on the individual psyche & society at large, is the example of Septimus in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. While S occupies relatively little text compared to narratives related to Clarissa Dalloway & her looming party, he […]
Introduction and Poems by William Blackley
Introduction by William Blackley Thanks to John Amen for the opportunity to read many of the 3000 or so poems submitted for this special edition of war poetry. Thanks as well to John and Stefan Lovasik for what was an exciting and fruitful editorial process. The poems were extremely powerful and evocative. Choosing to add […]
Richard Schiffman’s What the Dust Doesn’t Know, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Richard Schiffman What the Dust Doesn’t Know Salmon Poetry/Dufour Editions Reviewer: David E. Poston Richard Schiffman’s first full-length poetry collection, What the Dust Doesn’t Know, is dedicated to Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi and to “this sane and sacred Earth which sustains us all.” Author of biographies of the Jillellamudi Mother and Sri Ramakrishna, Schiffman […]
Mary Dezember’s Still Howling, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Mary Dezember Still Howling CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reviewer: Ann Wehrman It takes courage for a modern, intellectual, female poet to oppose current literary style and write serious poems that speak of the bright, glowing, soft topics: love, angels, and sacred sexuality—topics of “light,” hope, and virtue. One might ask: where are the angst, the […]
