Debridement
Corrina Bain Debridement great weather for MEDIA ISBN: 978-0-9857317-5-5 Reviewer: CL Bledsoe Corrina Bain’s collection opens with the prose poem “Sorry,” a series of images depicting childhood poverty. The power of the poem is the general lack of commentary. The poet simply presents these images, which often imply at least the possibility of danger; for […]
A Girl Goes into the Woods
A Girl Goes into the Woods Lyn Lifshin NYQ Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-32-0 Reviewer: JoSelle Vanderhooft With a publication history dating back to 1969 and encompassing 130 books and three edited anthologies, Lyn Lifshin is one of the US’s most prolific and, perhaps, difficult to categorize poets. Regardless of genre or medium, many writers, poets among […]
The Richard Peabody Reader
Richard Peabody The Richard Peabody Reader Alan Squire Publishing ISBN: 978-0984832989 Reviewer: Nathan Leslie Voltaire. Nietzsche. Kerouac. Peabody. The Richard Peabody Reader takes its cues from the well-known Penguin reader series and its associated knock-offs (if you attended college in the 90s like I did, these readers were ubiquitous), which compiled a best-of for […]
The Yellow Door
Amy Uyematsu The Yellow Door Red Hen Press ISBN: 978-1-59709-430-6 Reviewer: Lee Rossi Once upon a time, I took a workshop with Garrett Hongo, the Asian-American poet and memoirist, and as always happens in such settings, some of the aspiring writers started pestering him about The Secret. Hongo, somewhat of a Zen Master in his […]
Winter River Flowing: Selected Poems 1979-2014
T. kilgore splake winter river flowing: selected poems 1979-2014 Presa Press ISBN: 978-0-9888279-6-7 Reviewer: George Wallace For lovers of American poetry that flourishes under the radar, wandering through the slow, steady experience of recollecting the past with poet t. kilgore splake will be an experience of ineluctable delight. In single poems that have basked in […]
