Brian Fanelli’s Waiting for the Dead to Speak, Reviewed by Robert Fillman
Brian Fanelli Waiting for the Dead to Speak NYQ Books Reviewed by: Robert Fillman In Brian Fanelli’s second full-length collection, Waiting for the Dead to Speak, we find ourselves witnessing the maturation of a young man—from a working-class Pennsylvanian childhood to an educated, professional adult life on the fringe of the academy. But beyond this […]
George Wallace’s A Simple Blues with a Few Intangibles, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
George Wallace A Simple Blues with a Few Intangibles Foothill Publishing Reviewer: Lee Rossi For nearly thirty years, George Wallace has been a mainstay of the New York / Long Island poetry scene. Performer, publisher, and literary activist, he carries on the tradition of Whitman and the Beats, striving heroically to counter the culture’s neglect […]
Tim Suermondt’s Election Night and the Five Satins, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Tim Suermondt Election Night and the Five Satins Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Perhaps Tim Suermondt would have us believe he is a luftmensch. The poem “Luftmensch” describes a character who is like a miracle unaware of its gift. He kept moving, showing up anywhere, at any time. He could be in your […]
Joseph Hutchison’s The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Joseph Hutchison The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015 NYQ Books Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Currently serving as Poet Laureate of Colorado, Joseph Hutchison has fifteen volumes of poetry to his credit, so this sixteenth collection, a substantial, 264-page gathering of his work from 1972 to 2015, is certainly due, if not past […]
Daniel Y. Harris’s The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg
Daniel Y. Harris The Rapture of Eddy Daemon (A Posthuman Homage to SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS) BlazeVOX Reviewer: Ricardo Nirenberg We gather from his CV that Harris has a degree in divinity from UChicago, and we can tell from leafing through this new collection that his intellectual interests are wide enough to cover all human reality, which […]
