Fracking Dakota
Peter Neil Carroll Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land Turning Point Books ISBN: 978-1-62549-122-0 Reviewer:Lee Rossi History, archaeology, and geology might be thought of as simply three different ways of looking at landscape. Trained as a historian, Peter Neil Carroll has spent the past decade traveling the United States, interrogating its places and producing […]
First Comes Love
Beth Ann Cagle First Comes Love Main Street Rag Press ISBN: 978-1-59948-516-4 Reviewer: CL Bledsoe Cagle’s collection opens with a meditation entitled “Bearing New Moons”: “My journey is numbered on a handless clock./ Am I to name the hour of my becoming?” She seems to be saying that we often aren’t in control—or at least […]
Lost Among the Hours
Alan Britt Lost Among the Hours Rain Mountain Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-0606-4 Reviewer: Paul Sohar Even while the art and the very concept of poetry are redefined among the literati every day and usually found too elusive to corral into a well-controlled enclosure, let alone forced into a cage with a tag, the very same wordsmiths […]
Major Characters in Minor Films
Kristy Bowen major characters in minor films Sundress Publications ISBN: 978-1939675194 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman “More to the point, there are three versions of every story: yours, mine, and the one we make up for the sake of art.” —Kristy Bowen, “wild onion moon” In her inspired compilation major characters in minor films, Kristy Bowen, the […]
