klipschutz’s Premeditations, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
klipschutz Premeditations Hoot ‘n’ Waddle Reviewer: Lee Rossi A literary history for our time, klipschutz’s Premeditations provides one man’s overview of American poetry—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—from Whitman and Dickinson to the near present. According to the foreword, klipschutz’s love affair with literature began as a young teenager stoned and languishing in Indio, […]
Lee Rossi’s Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Lee Rossi Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life Moon Tide Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman In Darwin’s Garden, the formidable poet Lee Rossi reflects upon life in 21st century America, as well as his own past decades growing up, through the lens of “a middle-class Catholic boy from the suburbs of St Louis…[t]wo generations away from Italy, […]
Patricia Fargnoli’s Hallowed, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Patricia Fargnoli Hallowed/New and Selected Poems Tupelo Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Patricia Fargnoli’s recent book Hallowed combines new poems with selections from four previous volumes. Although she began studying poetry in her mid-thirties, Fargnoli, now eighty-two, published her first book just twenty years ago. A retired psychotherapist, she brings to her work a steady emotional […]
Sheryl St. Germain’s The Small Door of Your Death, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Sheryl St. Germain The Small Door of Your Death Autumn House Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Sheryl St. Germain makes no secret of her secrets. She’s the kind of writer who opens all her closets and invites the skeletons to the dinner table. In 6 previous books of poetry and 2 memoirs she details her experience […]