Beth Copeland’s I Ask the Mountain to Heal My Heart, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Beth Copeland I Ask the Mountain to Heal My Heart Redhawk Publications Reviewer: David E. Poston The mountains of North Carolina and the southern Appalachians—even as their character and traditions are being eclipsed by development and battered by climate change—have been a perennial source of inspiration for writers of every genre, perhaps poets most of […]
Gloria Mindock’s Grief Touched the Sky at Night, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Gloria Mindock Grief Touched the Sky at Night Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Can poets do anything to thwart the apocalyptic evil of war? The Falangists in Spain believed so; they murdered García Lorca because they considered him as much of a threat with his pen as others with guns. Anna Akhmatova, despite […]
A. E. Hines’ Adam in the Garden, Reviewed by David E. Poston
A. E. Hines Adam in the Garden Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: David E. Poston In Adam in the Garden, A. E. Hines uses the biblical tale of the loss of Eden and its repercussions to explore concentric circles of his own life experience. Looking through that archetypal lens allows for an achingly honest and emotionally […]
Alan Britt’s The Tavern of Lost Souls, Reviewed by David E. Poston
The Tavern of Lost Souls Alan Britt Červená Barva Press Reviewer: David E. Poston It has been fifty years since Mantras: An Anthology of Immanentist Poetry, edited by Alan Britt, first appeared. Britt has now published twenty-five collections of his own poetry, with The Tavern of Lost Souls being one of two that came out […]
Craig Beaven’s Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Craig Beaven Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You Anhinga Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You is informed by Craig Beaven’s perspective as a parent and teacher, responsible for his own young children, still in the prelapsarian world, and for his students, on the cusp of leaving […]
