Gloria Mindock’s Ash, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Gloria Mindock Ash Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Throughout Ash, Gloria Mindock’s speaker laments a broken marriage, a husband despised, and a home destroyed by fire. Mindock crafts shattered, hallucinatory poems, illustrating the process of destruction and what remains, both within her and without. She writes of intimate relationships and in expanding spirals of […]
Tony Trigilio’s Proof Something Happened, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Tony Trigilio Proof Something Happened Marsh Hawk Press Reviewed by Brian Fanelli Betty and Barney Hill are about as famous as you can get in UFO circles. Whatever happened to them on that fateful September night in 1961 in rural New Hampshire is one of, if not, the most prominent abduction cases in the U.S. […]
Carl Marcum’s A Camera Obscura, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Carl Marcum A Camera Obscura Red Hen Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Just as the James West Space Telescope (the J.W.S.T.) is about to supersede the Hubble Telescope (offering the difference between myopia and 20-20 vision, at least when it comes to the far-far-far reaches of the universe), Carl Marcum offers us A Camera Obscura, a […]
Ace Boggess’s Escape Envy, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Ace Boggess Escape Envy Brick Road Poetry Press Reviewer: Erica Goss The possibility of escape, whether from a traffic jam, a prison cell, or just an uncomfortable conversation, informs Escape Envy, Ace Boggess’s latest collection. The poems in this book explore family relations, emotional vulnerability, and the poignant, often perplexing experiences of post-prison life, where […]
Kimberly L Becker’s Flight, Reviewed by Katharine Blair
Flight Kimberly Becker MadHat Press Reviewer: Katharine Blair Reviewer’s note: I am putting the final keystrokes into this review as my home and native land of Canada wrestles with the discovery of the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the province of British Columbia. Many of us […]
