Judy Kronenfeld’s Bird Flying through the Banquet, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Judy Kronenfeld Bird Flying through the Banquet FutureCyclePress Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Upon reading and rereading Judy Kronenfeld’s 2017 collection, Bird Flying through the Banquet, as a Western female poet writing today, I recognized more than an esteemed colleague. Kronenfeld’s poems, in their deep centeredness, stillness, and fearless reach, reveal a teacher and a pioneer. At […]
Justin Hamm’s American Ephemeral, Reviewed by Francine Witte
Justin Hamm American Ephemeral Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press Reviewer: Francine Witte If you didn’t take the often-desired road trip through the America’s heartland this past summer, fear not. Justin Hamm’s second book, American Ephemeral, is a beautiful swirl of poetry and photos that just might make you feel as if you are barreling down a highway […]
Eleanor Goodman’s Nine Dragon Island, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Eleanor Goodman Nine Dragon Island Zephyr Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Of her award-winning translation of the poetry of Wang Xiaoni, Eleanor Goodman has written that Wang Xiaoni’s work is marked by “keen detail and the use of ordinary objects—potatoes, trains, mountains, sunlight, dust rags—to create emotional resonance. She leans toward simple but penetrating language, […]
Karen Volkman’s Whereso, Reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
Karen Volkman Whereso BOA Editions Reviewer: Wynn Yarbrough Karen Volkman has published books now for over eighteen years. In that time, her four collections of poems have varied in formal arrangements and stylistically in terms of line length and compaction. Her previous releases—Crash’s Law (1998), a mix of forms; Spar (2002), a mixed prose form […]
Richard Schiffman’s What the Dust Doesn’t Know, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Richard Schiffman What the Dust Doesn’t Know Salmon Poetry/Dufour Editions Reviewer: David E. Poston Richard Schiffman’s first full-length poetry collection, What the Dust Doesn’t Know, is dedicated to Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi and to “this sane and sacred Earth which sustains us all.” Author of biographies of the Jillellamudi Mother and Sri Ramakrishna, Schiffman […]
