Charles Rammelkamp’s The Field of Happiness, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Charles Rammelkamp The Field of Happiness Kelsay Books Reviewer: David E. Poston Charles Rammelkamp’s new collection, The Field of Happiness, brought to mind Ted Kooser. In a 1992 essay in Can Poetry Matter?, Dana Gioia characterizes Kooser as striking “the difficult balance between profundity and accessibility” and goes to great lengths to defend Kooser as […]
Bruce Bond’s patmos, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Bruce Bond patmos University of Massachusetts Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Section III of patmos, Bruce Bond’s new book-length poetic sequence, begins: I was just another creature crawling from the mausoleum, and I thought, so this is it, the place in the final chapter where I’m judged for my cruelties, blunders, failures of attention, and […]
Mike James’s Leftover Distances, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Mike James Leftover Distances Luchador Press Reviewer: David E. Poston In “Almost Autumn and Time to Go,” from his new collection Leftover Distances, Mike James writes, Everything goes back to travel. Get to heaven or just over there. Some of us stay ready. We live by love or fear. Maybe adventures are one street over. […]
Keith Flynn’s The Skin of Meaning, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Keith Flynn The Skin of Meaning Red Hen Press Reviewed by David E. Poston Keith Flynn might be the love child of William Blake and Etta James. In his latest collection, The Skin of Meaning, he moves easily from whisper to croon to full-throated growl. As in his five earlier collections, he shows his skillful […]
Paul Sohar’s In Sun’s Shadow, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Paul Sohar In Sun’s Shadow Ragged Sky Press Reviewed by David E. Poston Paul Sohar’s long experience as a translator of Hungarian poets such as Miklós Radnóti, Zoltán Böszörményi, and György Faludy has informed his own poetry in fascinating ways. In his new collection, In Sun’s Shadow, we see a clear preference for concrete language […]
