Stelios Mormoris’s Perishable, Reviewed by Jeanne Julian
Stelios Mormoris Perishable Tupelo Press Reviewer: Jeanne Julian As the title suggests, the shadow of our mortality hovers over the poems in Perishable. This full-length collection, Mormoris’s second, contemplates death and loss, from witnessing mourners at a funeral to envisioning one’s own funeral in “Arrangements.” Images of knives eerily recur in unexpected contexts, little swords […]
Marcia LeBeau’s A Curious Hunger, Reviewed by Jeanne Julian
Marcia LeBeau A Curious Hunger Broadstone Books Reviewer: Jeanne Julian In A Curious Hunger, her first full-length collection, Marcia LeBeau often artfully shapes her poems around the unsaid, and that’s what tells the real stories. This is “a language of holes,” as she writes in “After Fagradalsfjall.” The book is divided into four untitled sections, […]
