Scott Ferry’s Sapphires on the Graves, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Scott Ferry Sapphires on the Graves Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu In Scott Ferry’s new collection, Sapphires on the Graves, form, format, and subject work together to create poetic montages, shifting collages of dreams, domestic scenes, and views of the subconscious mind. The opening lines of the first piece, “guam,” place readers immediately in a […]
Irene Blair Honeycutt’s Mountains of the Moon, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Irene Blair Honeycutt Mountains of the Moon Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Poet and teacher Irene Blair Honeycutt introduces her fifth collection, Mountains of the Moon, by quoting Margaret Gibson’s suggestion that writing poetry is “an act of attention and receptivity.” It’s an apt description for the new book, which showcases close consideration of […]
Matthew E. Henry’s The Third Renunciation, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Matthew E. Henry The Third Renunciation New York Quarterly Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Dr. Matthew E. Henry is a busy man. A high school teacher with a MFA in poetry, a MA in theology, and a PhD in Education, he is on the editorial staff of two journals and is the author of several books […]
Marion Starling Boyer’s Ice Hours, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Marion Starling Boyer Ice Hours Wheelbarrow Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu On June 9th, shipwreck hunters announced that they had found Quest, the ship on which Ernest Shackleton died almost exactly a century ago. The timing of the discovery is fortuitous for poet Marion Starling Boyer, whose new collection Ice House tells the story of the […]
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 […]
