Sara Backer – Such Luck
Such Luck My California single girl bedroom: cinderblock shelves, futon, paper globe light, wine bottle candlesticks coated with waxy stalactites. Lacking men to stay the night, I drank in bed. The more I drank, the larger my glass grew. I waded surf with cabernet in hand and yearned for love. Until I sipped and found […]
Karen Paul Holmes’ No Such Thing as Distance, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Karen Paul Holmes No Such Thing as Distance Terrapin Books Reviewer: David E. Poston Reading No Such Thing as Distance, the new collection from Karen Paul Holmes, I was reminded of hearing poet Cecily Parks talk about how poems need to be generous. No Such Thing as Distance offers readers a rich family history, including […]
Andrea Hollander’s Blue Mistaken for Sky, Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Andrea Hollander Blue Mistaken for Sky Autumn House Press Reviewer: Maria Rouphail Let me confess (to my chagrin) that before I was invited to submit this review of Blue Mistaken for Sky (forthcoming from Pittsburgh’s Autumn House Press), I’d never read the work of award-winning poet, Andrea Hollander. Let me also confess that having sat […]
Lynn Schmeidler’s History of Gone, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Lynn Schmeidler History of Gone Veliz Books Reviewer: Cindy Hochman And I have no face, I have effaced myself —Sylvia Plath, “Tulips” A surefire way to get a reader’s attention is to start off with the bona fide disappearance, draped in mystery, of a writer. Throw into the mix the fact that this literary wunderkind […]
