Katherine Soniat’s Bright Stranger,
Reviewed by Lynn Levin
Katherine Soniat Bright Stranger Louisiana State University Press ISBN: 978-0-8071-6241-5 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat’s new collection of dreamy, explorative, elegant poems, takes us on many trails—on a hike through the Grand Canyon, along Orpheus’s descent into Hades, through geological time, mythic time, and fragments of the speaker’s life. Many of the […]
Jordan Rice’s Constellarium,
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Jordan Rice Constellarium Orison Books, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-9906917-7-8 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman Someone tells a joke. “Where do they put a missing tranny’s photo? On cartons of half and half.” —Jordan Rice, “The Living Is Easy” The heartrending and harrowing poems in Jordan Rice’s Constellarium underscore the difference between poetry and politics, despite the fact […]
Afric McGlinchey’s Ghost of the Fisher Cat,
Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Afric McGlinchey Ghost of the Fisher Cat Salmon Poetry ISBN: 978-1-910669-39-6 Reviewer: Maria Rouphail What do violin strings, the mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and poisoned quinces have in common? They are conceits in Irish poet, Afric McGlinchey’s second collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat. Prompted by a Parisian legend of a ghost […]
Ted Jonathan’s Run,
Reviewed by Ace Boggess
Ted Jonathan Run New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-023-6 Reviewer: Ace Boggess If Ted Jonathan’s poetry collection, Run, were a novel, it would be described as a coming-of-age story—49 poems that escort the reader on a journey through childhood struggles, a teenager’s coping, and the finding-oneself of early adulthood. Jonathan reflects on a schoolboy […]
John Davies – Underwater Detonation of a World War II Bomb
Underwater Detonation of a World War II Bomb An ingestion of time, the bomb looks inward: tortures reel endless on a black billowing screen. Hidden from war, from seventy years’ weather, sightless rats of its own creation invent continuous season. Thumb the pressure points of earth at the temple, and thirty feet of water comes, […]
