Mischa Willett’s Phases, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Mischa Willett Phases Cascade Books Reviewer: Lee Rossi The latest volume in the Poiema Poetry Series, which, as the series editor declares, “presents the work of gifted poets who take Christian faith seriously,” Mischa Willett’s Phases is less noteworthy for its declarations of religious belief than for the way it mimics poets for whom Christianity […]
John Elsberg’s Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
John Elsberg Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems of John Elsberg (Constance M. Elsberg, Editor) Paycock Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Not Quite Ocean celebrates the poetry of John Elsberg (1945-2012), a poet, editor, and historian who authored over a dozen poetry books and chapbooks and served as editor or associate editor of various literary magazines, […]
Lisa Allen Ortiz’s Guide to the Exhibit, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Lisa Allen Ortiz Guide to the Exhibit Perugia Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi In Guide to the Exhibit, Lisa Allen Ortiz offers the reader a tour of her own personal museum of natural (and unnatural) history, the product of a lifetime’s devoted collecting. Filled with wonders—birds abound but also mastodons and minerals, gemstones and microfossils—the book […]
Ian Ganassi’s Mean Numbers, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Ian Ganassi Mean Numbers China Grove Press/IsoLibris Publishing Reviewer: Cindy Hochman And now for something completely different… Perhaps in the Age of Trump, we have become all too accustomed to non sequiturs. The difference, however, between the president’s non sequiturs and Ian Ganassi’s is that the poet’s seemingly disconnected lines are actually an exercise in […]
John Paul Davis’s Crown Prince of Rabbits, Reviewed by Francine Witte
John Paul Davis Crown Prince of Rabbits great weather for MEDIA Reviewer: Francine Witte Think tornado. Think of the wind spinning and swirling around you, everyday objects plastered to the inner walls of the funnel. Look, there’s a chair! Look, there’s a tree! Items you have seen a thousand times, but now, are lifted out […]
