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 […]
Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Matt Donovan The Dug-Up Gun Museum BOA Editions Reviewer: David E. Poston In The Dug-Up Gun Museum, Matt Donovan leads us on a brilliantly conceived, meticulously researched journey into the heart of America’s gun culture, a journey described with flawless technical skill. From the first poem, we are whisked through one superbly paced narrative after […]
