Marcia LeBeau’s A Curious Hunger, Reviewed by Jeanne Julian
Marcia LeBeau A Curious Hunger Broadstone Books Reviewer: Jeanne Julian In A Curious Hunger, her first full-length collection, Marcia LeBeau often artfully shapes her poems around the unsaid, and that’s what tells the real stories. This is “a language of holes,” as she writes in “After Fagradalsfjall.” The book is divided into four untitled sections, […]
Matthew E. Henry’s The Third Renunciation, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Matthew E. Henry The Third Renunciation New York Quarterly Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Dr. Matthew E. Henry is a busy man. A high school teacher with a MFA in poetry, a MA in theology, and a PhD in Education, he is on the editorial staff of two journals and is the author of several books […]
Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Lynne Thompson Blue on a Blue Palette BOA Editions Reviewer: Erica Goss In Blue on a Blue Palette, Lynne Thompson embarks on a journey through physical and personal geographies, exploring relationships, moods, and history, with a focus on the strength and resiliency of women. The color blue links these poems through direct and implied references. […]
Grace Cavalieri’s Owning the Not So Distant World, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Grace Cavalieri Owning the Not So Distant World Blue Light Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli In her latest collection, Owning the Not So Distant World, Grace Cavalieri taps into memory through very specific images, be it a wedding dress or old furniture, to recount youth, the early stages of a relationship, and also loss. Her new […]
Gloria Mindock’s Grief Touched the Sky at Night, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Gloria Mindock Grief Touched the Sky at Night Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Can poets do anything to thwart the apocalyptic evil of war? The Falangists in Spain believed so; they murdered García Lorca because they considered him as much of a threat with his pen as others with guns. Anna Akhmatova, despite […]
