Kristen Case’s Principles of Economics, Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Kristen Case Principles of Economics Switchback Books Reviewer: Maria Rouphail In Principles of Economics, Kristen Case explores the personal dimensions of grief stemming from the deaths of her father (a prominent economics professor who succumbed to Parkinson’s disease) and, apparently, an unidentified beloved.[i] This collection is ambitious and substantial. And Case clearly has talent. In […]
Margo Taft Stever’s Cracked Piano, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Margo Taft Stever Cracked Piano CavanKerry Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Margo Taft Stever’s Cracked Piano examines mental illness and trauma, particularly in the context of cultural cruelty and disconnection. At its heart is the story of Stever’s great-grandfather and the half-brother of president William Howard Taft, Peter Taft, who was kept for part of his […]
Patricia Fargnoli’s Hallowed, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Patricia Fargnoli Hallowed/New and Selected Poems Tupelo Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Patricia Fargnoli’s recent book Hallowed combines new poems with selections from four previous volumes. Although she began studying poetry in her mid-thirties, Fargnoli, now eighty-two, published her first book just twenty years ago. A retired psychotherapist, she brings to her work a steady emotional […]
Collin Kelley’s Midnight in a Perfect World, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Collin Kelley Midnight in a Perfect World Sibling Rivalry Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Collin Kelley’s Midnight in a Perfect World takes the reader across a turbulent sea of passions, betrayal, and transcendence, using free verse and bold imagery. The narrative and lyrical poems convey suffering incurred through diverse experiences, expressing a wide gamut of psychological […]
George Wallace’s One Hundred Years Among the Daisies, Reviewed by David E. Poston
George Wallace One Hundred Years Among the Daisies Stubborn Mule Press Reviewer: David E. Poston One Hundred Years Among the Daisies is a 138-page incantation. I read much of it aloud, pulled along by its “voluptuous doxologies,” by the sheer hypnotism of the phrases and endless sweep of the lines. Alternately consoling and challenging, lyrical […]
