Marc Frazier’s Each Things Touches,
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Marc Frazier Each Thing Touches Glass Lyre Press ISBN: 978-1-941783-07-8 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most poetry collections have a poem near the beginning that gives the reader clues on how to read the book. Each Thing Touches by Chicago poet Marc Frazier has at least two. The prologue poem, “After,” opens with “I heard […]
Richard Broderick’s Jesus of Walmart,
Reviewed by George Wallace
Richard Broderick Jesus of Walmart New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-019-9 Reviewer: George Wallace One might wonder, given a title like Jesus of Walmart, what kind of admixture of commentary poet Richard Broderick is going to offer concerning the presence of the sacred and the profane in contemporary American society. What immediately comes to […]
Debridement
Corrina Bain Debridement great weather for MEDIA ISBN: 978-0-9857317-5-5 Reviewer: CL Bledsoe Corrina Bain’s collection opens with the prose poem “Sorry,” a series of images depicting childhood poverty. The power of the poem is the general lack of commentary. The poet simply presents these images, which often imply at least the possibility of danger; for […]
A Girl Goes into the Woods
A Girl Goes into the Woods Lyn Lifshin NYQ Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-32-0 Reviewer: JoSelle Vanderhooft With a publication history dating back to 1969 and encompassing 130 books and three edited anthologies, Lyn Lifshin is one of the US’s most prolific and, perhaps, difficult to categorize poets. Regardless of genre or medium, many writers, poets among […]
The Richard Peabody Reader
Richard Peabody The Richard Peabody Reader Alan Squire Publishing ISBN: 978-0984832989 Reviewer: Nathan Leslie Voltaire. Nietzsche. Kerouac. Peabody. The Richard Peabody Reader takes its cues from the well-known Penguin reader series and its associated knock-offs (if you attended college in the 90s like I did, these readers were ubiquitous), which compiled a best-of for […]
