The Braided Light
Gail Peck The Braided Light Main Street Rag Publishing Company ISBN: 978-1-59948-521-8 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Gail Peck’s new book, her eighth collection of poems, is The Braided Light, the winner of Main Street Rag’s 2014 Lena Shull Contest. This graceful collection comprises mostly ekphrastic poems, that is, poems that describe works of art, in this […]
McNally’s Simply to Know Its Name
Robert Aquinas McNally Simply to Know Its Name Grayson Books ISBN: 978-0-9913861-7-8 Reviewer: George Wallace In “Steelheading,” the opening salvo in Robert Aquinas McNally’s new collection of poems, we find a fisherman wading into stormy river waters, casting spoons and threading lures in the finest Western Lit fashion. Doing battle with the elements—bone-chilling, icy elements. […]
Yes, the Ducks Were Real
Linda Lerner Yes, the Ducks Were Real New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-86-3Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Prizewinning New York poet Linda Lerner speaks in what might be regarded as traditionally feminine tones: high-pitched, clearly enunciated, a bit sad, cultured, wavering yet insistent in its maturity, twisting and stressing with the music of a Brooklyn native. For […]
The Divine Kiss
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld The Divine Kiss: an exhibit of paintings and poems in honor of David Campagna The Seventh Quarry and Cross-Cultural Communications ISBN: 978-0-89304-970-6 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Half art book, half poetry collection The Divine Kiss by artist and poet Carolyn Mary Kleefeld combines the erotic and the spiritual in fifteen impressive color-saturated semi-abstract […]
Chetrit’s Jews: Translations from Hebrew 1982-2013
Sami Shalom Chetrit Jews: Translations from Hebrew 1982-2013 Červená Barva Press ISBN: 978-0-692-33628-1Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Jews—the 2015 English translation from Hebrew of Sami Shalom Chetrit’s poetry—raves, muses, laments, whispers, roundly scolds, kvetches, and praises. These poems sing of the longing for justice, humanity, brotherhood, and peace, and always for a God who is elusive yet […]
