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 […]
Luke Johnson’s Quiver, Reviewed by Frank Paino
Luke Johnson Quiver Texas Review Press Reviewer: Frank Paino In 1308, Italian poet and philosopher, Dante Alighieri, began writing his magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, an unforgettable trilogy of canticles in which Dante is led by the great poet, Virgil, along a path that begins with a graphic journey through nine torturous circles of Hell, […]
Frank Paino – Nesyamun
Nesyamun Priest and Scribe of the Karnak Temple (Mummified remains displayed in Leeds City Museum, England) Forty layers of incensed linen stripped in the slow seduction of science. Cumin, myrrh, oils of cedar and cinnamon whose aromatics swirl like the potent scent of burnt offerings. Here, beneath […]
