Leonard Gontarek’s Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Leonard Gontarek Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me BlazeVOX [books] Reviewer: Lee Rossi You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Well, maybe not cry—maybe just tear up or breathe a heavy sigh as you page through Leonard Gontarek’s new book, Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me. Let’s begin at the end, with an interview between Gontarek and poet […]
Bruce Bond’s Vault, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Bruce Bond Vault The Ashland Poetry Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Bruce Bond has written thirty-seven books. A recent book, Vault, published in 2023, is the first I’ve read. What have I been missing? I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of discovering a writer in mid- or late career, whose latest work compels us to […]
Dorianne Laux’s Life on Earth, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Dorianne Laux Life on Earth W.W. Norton & Company, 2024 Reviewer: Lee Rossi With Life on Earth, her seventh full-length volume of poetry, Dorianne Laux offers again her truest poetic self. Throughout her career she has been consistently provocative and consistently enjoyable, sharing with her readers her enthusiasm for life and language. This book continues […]
Lee Rossi’s Say Anything, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Say Anything Lee Rossi Plain View Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu “Everything fits into everything else,” Lee Rossi tells us in the opening poem of his fifth collection. The idea is handy packaging for a book entitled Say Anything, but it prompts the question: if one might include anything and everything, what does one choose to […]
Lola Haskins’ Homelight, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Homelight Lola Haskins Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Lola Haskins, who has published 14 books of poetry as well as 3 prose volumes, is a poet whose left brain is quite as active as her right. (Haskins, you should know, taught computer science for three decades at the University of Florida.) Not long ago, […]
