Eleanor Goodman’s Nine Dragon Island, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Eleanor Goodman Nine Dragon Island Zephyr Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Of her award-winning translation of the poetry of Wang Xiaoni, Eleanor Goodman has written that Wang Xiaoni’s work is marked by “keen detail and the use of ordinary objects—potatoes, trains, mountains, sunlight, dust rags—to create emotional resonance. She leans toward simple but penetrating language, […]
Richard Schiffman’s What the Dust Doesn’t Know, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Richard Schiffman What the Dust Doesn’t Know Salmon Poetry/Dufour Editions Reviewer: David E. Poston Richard Schiffman’s first full-length poetry collection, What the Dust Doesn’t Know, is dedicated to Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi and to “this sane and sacred Earth which sustains us all.” Author of biographies of the Jillellamudi Mother and Sri Ramakrishna, Schiffman […]
Alison Stone’s Ordinary Magic, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Alison Stone Ordinary Magic NYQ Books Reviewer: David E. Poston Antoine Court de Gebelin claimed the tarot was all that survived of the Egyptian Book of Thoth, though it more likely began as a curiously illustrated deck invented for the medieval Italian game of tarocchi. The dozens of different sets of tarot illustrations occupy a […]
Tim Suermondt’s Election Night and the Five Satins, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Tim Suermondt Election Night and the Five Satins Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Perhaps Tim Suermondt would have us believe he is a luftmensch. The poem “Luftmensch” describes a character who is like a miracle unaware of its gift. He kept moving, showing up anywhere, at any time. He could be in your […]
