Charles Rammelkamp’s The Trapeze of Your Flesh, Reviewed by Robert Cooperman
Charles Rammelkamp The Trapeze of Your Flesh BlazeVOX Reviewer: Robert Cooperman Charles Rammelkamp has lived in Baltimore long enough to know all about “The Block,” that regal, or infamous, stretch of real estate that was once home to some of the best-known burlesque houses and strip tease artists who ever strutted their less than fully-clad […]
Gerald Locklin’s requiem for the toad: selected poems, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Gerald Locklin requiem for the toad: selected poems of gerald locklin Edited by Clint Margrave NYQ Books Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Pick up any small to mid-sized poetry publication issued over the last forty years and, most likely, it will include a Gerald Locklin poem. When I served as an associate editor of The Main Street […]
Irene Blair Honeycutt’s Mountains of the Moon, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Irene Blair Honeycutt Mountains of the Moon Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Poet and teacher Irene Blair Honeycutt introduces her fifth collection, Mountains of the Moon, by quoting Margaret Gibson’s suggestion that writing poetry is “an act of attention and receptivity.” It’s an apt description for the new book, which showcases close consideration of […]
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, […]