Kim Addonizio’s Exit Opera, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Kim Addonizio Exit Opera W.W. Norton Reviewer: Erica Goss Reading Kim Addonizio is like spending time with a witty yet reckless friend, one who drinks too much, wakes up in the beds of strangers, and suffers through numerous hangovers. Despite her questionable behavior, however, this friend is a wellspring of unvarnished truths, expounding on topics […]
Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Yehoshua November The Concealment of Endless Light Orison Books Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light is a beautiful and moving exploration of the wavering between hope and hopelessness in our lives. The collection’s poems examine how the profound and the mundane—the light and the sometimes seeming lack of light—are indelibly connected, […]
Dorianne Laux’s Life on Earth, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Dorianne Laux Life on Earth W.W. Norton & Company, 2024 Reviewer: Lee Rossi With Life on Earth, her seventh full-length volume of poetry, Dorianne Laux offers again her truest poetic self. Throughout her career she has been consistently provocative and consistently enjoyable, sharing with her readers her enthusiasm for life and language. This book continues […]
Rosa Lane’s Called Back, Reviewed by Frank Paino
Rosa Lane Called Back Tupelo Press Reviewer: Frank Paino If you’re anything like me, your introduction to Emily Dickinson came when you were still in grade school, and included “facts” about the poet’s life which painted her as a reclusive spinster whose failed heterosexual romances drove her to self-imposed imprisonment in her Amherst, Massachusetts bedroom […]
Michael Spring – hospital walls, 3am
hospital walls, 3am (after the pulmonary embolism) the walls are made of wings rustling inside the white paint my wife is asleep in a foldout chair in the corner of the room my body is sunk into pillows facing a dark TV screen – a black mirror – I watch myself and her and all […]
