Gloria Mindock’s Whiteness of Bone, Reviewed by Lynn Levin
Gloria Mindock Whiteness of Bone Glass Lyre Press ISBN: 978-1-941783-19-1 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Political poetry is necessary poetry, but it is also one of the most difficult types of poetry to write. The moral imperative that drives poems of outrage against man’s inhumanity to man often leads to work that explodes with fury and […]
Amy MacLennan’s The Body, a Tree, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Amy MacLennan The Body, A Tree MoonPath Press ISBN: 978-1-936657-22-3 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman For any reader who is at all spiritually inclined, the title The Body, A Tree, along with the ethereal artwork on the lovely cover, immediately summons the figure of the Bodhi tree, under which the Buddha found enlightenment. The sturdy branches […]
George Drew’s Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
George Drew Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems Texas Review Press ISBN: 978-1-680030792 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor The opening poem in this collection, “The Drowning of Christopher French,” probably written in the mid-1980s, competes fiercely for the honor of best poem in the book. It sets the tone for the entire collection, and, as […]
John Trause’s Exercises in High Treason,
Reviewed by Francine Witte
John J. Trause Exercises in High Treason great weather for MEDIA ISBN 978-0-9857317-8-6 Reviewer: Francine Witte The cover of John J. Trause’s new collection of poetry, Exercises in High Treason, tells you exactly what you are about to walk into. A casual glance at the cover shows a jumble of letters and words in […]
Katherine Soniat’s Bright Stranger,
Reviewed by Lynn Levin
Katherine Soniat Bright Stranger Louisiana State University Press ISBN: 978-0-8071-6241-5 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat’s new collection of dreamy, explorative, elegant poems, takes us on many trails—on a hike through the Grand Canyon, along Orpheus’s descent into Hades, through geological time, mythic time, and fragments of the speaker’s life. Many of the […]
