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 […]
Mary Dezember’s Still Howling, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Mary Dezember Still Howling CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reviewer: Ann Wehrman It takes courage for a modern, intellectual, female poet to oppose current literary style and write serious poems that speak of the bright, glowing, soft topics: love, angels, and sacred sexuality—topics of “light,” hope, and virtue. One might ask: where are the angst, the […]
Amanda J. Bradley’s Queen Kong, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Amanda J. Bradley Queen Kong NYQ Books Reviewer: Cindy Hochman Between dolls and dalliance, I begin to realize my body can be a weapon, can be violated, can be impregnated, can make me strong or weak. —“Fourteen” Even before your mind seizes on the heroic aspects of the comic-book cover of Mrs. Kong as a […]
