Lost Among the Hours
Alan Britt Lost Among the Hours Rain Mountain Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-0606-4 Reviewer: Paul Sohar Even while the art and the very concept of poetry are redefined among the literati every day and usually found too elusive to corral into a well-controlled enclosure, let alone forced into a cage with a tag, the very same wordsmiths […]
Major Characters in Minor Films
Kristy Bowen major characters in minor films Sundress Publications ISBN: 978-1939675194 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman “More to the point, there are three versions of every story: yours, mine, and the one we make up for the sake of art.” —Kristy Bowen, “wild onion moon” In her inspired compilation major characters in minor films, Kristy Bowen, the […]
Flyology
Flyology Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron’s daughter & writer of the first computer program And so I, student of proportion, set to the task of wings, tracing the bodies of gliding birds from the inside out. Their long ossifications curve like a harp’s neck, and my fingertips redden, knowing before I do that music and […]
Copernicus
At seventy, he avoids any brush with derision by nearing death after the first printing of his book. Who would believe him anyway? If the Earth spun on its axis, sped round Helios— the astounding new center of the Universe— then a ball tossed into the air would not fall back into one’s hands, but […]
The Alien Ruins
What does it say of the aliens’ gait that they left a planet riddled with stairways that never resolve into an easy walk for us. Four steps too short, then one that requires a lift and a scramble; the pattern repeats wherever there are stairs, which is everywhere throughout the planet. How many limbs did […]
