Jodie Hollander’s My Dark Horses, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Jodie Hollander My Dark Horses Liverpool University Press Reviewer: Erica Goss A torrent of shocking and revelatory poetry simmers between the covers of My Dark Horses, pulling the reader in with the very first poem, “Splitting and Fucking”: “My mother, / poor woman / somehow she was / always the victim / of splitting and […]
Daryl Sznyter’s Synonyms for (OTHER) Bodies, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Daryl Sznyter Synonyms for (OTHER) Bodies NYQ Books Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Peppering her poems with ampersands and i in the lower case, sans capitalization at sentences’ starts, Daryl Sznyter shoulders her way into the reader’s mind like a tough girl in a leather jacket: lipstick deep red, purple, or black; nails chipped; attitude a screwdriver […]
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 […]
