Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Yehoshua November The Concealment of Endless Light Orison Books Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light is a beautiful and moving exploration of the wavering between hope and hopelessness in our lives. The collection’s poems examine how the profound and the mundane—the light and the sometimes seeming lack of light—are indelibly connected, […]
Dorianne Laux’s Life on Earth, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Dorianne Laux Life on Earth W.W. Norton & Company, 2024 Reviewer: Lee Rossi With Life on Earth, her seventh full-length volume of poetry, Dorianne Laux offers again her truest poetic self. Throughout her career she has been consistently provocative and consistently enjoyable, sharing with her readers her enthusiasm for life and language. This book continues […]
Rosa Lane’s Called Back, Reviewed by Frank Paino
Rosa Lane Called Back Tupelo Press Reviewer: Frank Paino If you’re anything like me, your introduction to Emily Dickinson came when you were still in grade school, and included “facts” about the poet’s life which painted her as a reclusive spinster whose failed heterosexual romances drove her to self-imposed imprisonment in her Amherst, Massachusetts bedroom […]
Marcia LeBeau’s A Curious Hunger, Reviewed by Jeanne Julian
Marcia LeBeau A Curious Hunger Broadstone Books Reviewer: Jeanne Julian In A Curious Hunger, her first full-length collection, Marcia LeBeau often artfully shapes her poems around the unsaid, and that’s what tells the real stories. This is “a language of holes,” as she writes in “After Fagradalsfjall.” The book is divided into four untitled sections, […]
Matthew E. Henry’s The Third Renunciation, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Matthew E. Henry The Third Renunciation New York Quarterly Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Dr. Matthew E. Henry is a busy man. A high school teacher with a MFA in poetry, a MA in theology, and a PhD in Education, he is on the editorial staff of two journals and is the author of several books […]
