Amy Small-McKinney’s Walking Toward Cranes, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Amy Small-McKinney Walking Toward Cranes Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Cancer. The word strikes fear, anger, and grief into one’s mind and heart. Despite 21st century medical wizardry—including stem cell therapies, bionic body parts, and quick and easy outpatient surgeries—cancer remains a dreaded killer. “According to estimates from the International Agency for Research on […]
George Drew’s Fancy’s Orphan, Reviewed by David E. Poston
George Drew Fancy’s Orphan Tiger Bark Press Reviewer: David E. Poston George Drew’s Fancy’s Orphan is a fascinating mix of voices presented in fluid and supple lines. These poems are Frost-haunted, with echoes of Keats, Wordsworth, Yeats, and Rilke. Their penetrating descriptions present what Hopkins called the inscape of both the natural world and of […]
Erica Goss’s Night Court, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Erica Goss Night Court Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Erica Goss’s Lyrebird Prize-winning new collection, Night Court, begins by pulling readers into a world of eerie sounds in the dark of night. It positions us on the edge of what the book’s final poem calls the “floating world” between real and surreal. When […]
Jenny Molberg’s Marvels of the Invisible, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Jenny Molberg Marvels of the Invisible Tupelo Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Finding an expanse of previously unexplored wilderness, the naturalist is keen to discover an unknown species. Likewise a critic, opening a first book, looks for signs of new life. Jenny Molberg’s Marvels of the Invisible provides many such clues, all hinting at some chameleon-like, […]
Tyree Daye’s River Hymns, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Tyree Daye River Hymns The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize 2017 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman My mama would say to kill a cricket is a sin against the night. —Tyree Daye, “Tamed” There’s something about the work of Southern writers that sticks to the soul. Maybe it’s the sultry air, or the oppressive weather generating […]
