Patricia Fargnoli’s Hallowed, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Patricia Fargnoli Hallowed/New and Selected Poems Tupelo Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Patricia Fargnoli’s recent book Hallowed combines new poems with selections from four previous volumes. Although she began studying poetry in her mid-thirties, Fargnoli, now eighty-two, published her first book just twenty years ago. A retired psychotherapist, she brings to her work a steady emotional […]
Collin Kelley’s Midnight in a Perfect World, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Collin Kelley Midnight in a Perfect World Sibling Rivalry Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Collin Kelley’s Midnight in a Perfect World takes the reader across a turbulent sea of passions, betrayal, and transcendence, using free verse and bold imagery. The narrative and lyrical poems convey suffering incurred through diverse experiences, expressing a wide gamut of psychological […]
George Wallace’s One Hundred Years Among the Daisies, Reviewed by David E. Poston
George Wallace One Hundred Years Among the Daisies Stubborn Mule Press Reviewer: David E. Poston One Hundred Years Among the Daisies is a 138-page incantation. I read much of it aloud, pulled along by its “voluptuous doxologies,” by the sheer hypnotism of the phrases and endless sweep of the lines. Alternately consoling and challenging, lyrical […]
Allison Joseph’s Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Allison Joseph Confessions of a Barefaced Woman Red Hen Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Reading Allison Joseph’s latest collection, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, feels like a much-needed reprieve and act of resistance against the onslaught of negative news. The narratives spun within the pages are a celebration of literature, black history, and the quieter moments […]
