Category: Reviews
Many to Remember by Rachel Kauffman is reviewed in the online journal Tablet
Jake Marmer reviews Rachel Kauffman’s Many to Remember in the online journal Tablet. Poetry and history can seem like perfect foils. History aims toward precision and accuracy; poetry tends to favor ambiguity and subjectivity. If …
Daniel Shapiro’s Child With A Swan’s Wings is reviewed in American Book Review
Elizabeth Cohen reviews Daniel Shapiro’s Child With A Swan’s Wings in the May/June 2020 issue of American Book Review. Oh, to be the poet Daniel Shapiro! The whimsical narrative poems in Child with a Swan’s …
John Matthias’s Living With A Visionary is reviewed in Fortnightly Review
Peter Robinson reviews John Matthias’s Living With A Visionary in The Fortnightly Review. THE OPENING PROPOSITION in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophocus asserts, ‘Die Welt is alles, was der Fall ist.’ ‘The world is everything that is the case’, …
Jane Augustine’s Traverse Featured in Poetry Daily
Jane Augustine’s Traverse appears in the What Sparks Poetry feature on Poetry Daily. Read the poem Metaphysics followed by the review by Susan Tichy. One of the joys of Autumn has been wandering the nearly 700 …
Thirty/Six Two Lives – a Poetic Dialogue is reviewed in ē · rā/ tiō
Ralph La Charity reviews Thirty/Six/ Two Lives – a Poetic Dialogue by Norman Finkelstein and Tirzah Goldenberg. Ralph La Charity is also the author of Farewellia a la Aralee, Litanies said Handely, and Blood Vertigo, …
Peg Boyers’ The Album is reviewed in the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Dennis Daly reviews Peg Boyers’ new book of poetry, The Album in the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Never have I read ekphrastic poems so undetachable from the sources of their inspiration. It …
The Parting Present / Lo Que Se Ira by Manuel Iris is reviewed in The Athens News
Bonnie Proudfoot reviews The Parting Present / Lo Que Se Ira by Manuel Iris in the Athens News, December 9 issue. The first thing a reader notices about The Parting Present / Lo Que Se Ira …
Vanishing Points by Gary Metras is reviewed in Boston Area Small Press & Poetry Scene
Ruth Hoberman reviews Gary Metras’s Vanishing Points in Boston Area Small Press & Poetry Scene. Gary Metras has been an essential part of the Massachusetts poetry scene for decades. A widely published poet, for forty …
The Butcher’s Reincarnation is reviewed in Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation
Clara Burghelea reviews The Butcher’s Reincarnation: Visions of the Nuclear Age, by Óscar Hahn, translated by G. J. Racz in issue 15.2 (2021) of Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation. Review THE BUTCHER’S REINCARNATION: VISIONS …
John Bradley’s book of poems Hotel Montparnasse is reviewed in Scene 4
Hotel Montparnasse by John Bradley is reviewed by Karen Alenier in Scene 4. “Hotel Montparnasse: Letters to César Vallejo by John Bradley is bewildering in the way George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo is with its cast of …